ORIGINAL: Paul Hazelwood
that accidental occurences happen at the field.
You position generalizes when the issue that has raised controversy is not.
Shoot downs from someone being negligent by turning on thier transmitter is the issue.
I believe that keeping your transmitter OFF when it needs to be OFF is one of the things that is clearly under direct control of the owner of the transmitter.
I'd like someone to show differently.
I, and a couple of others demonstrated that even under these circumstances, what appears to be obvious "neglect, or negligence", is a simple mistake.
That's the point to this thread.....
example:
I observed, and witnessed, a fellow that had walked over to the transmitter impound stand, put his pin up, grabbed a 9C Futaba, turned it on, and then realized it wasn't his transmitter!
Realizing this, he promptly put the transmitter back into the stand and grabbed his own transmitter. He left the other transmitter switched on.
Well, do I need to say more? If I hadn't observed this entire snafu, the owner of the transmitter that had been turned on by this yahoo would have been blamed for being "negligent".
And this is just one such story. I'm sure there are others. S**t happens at the field, and the best we can do is make sure that all our friends conduct themselves as we do. But accidents do happen.
It's just a fact of R/C Flying.