Originally Posted by
DeferredDefect
I agree that's pretty dangerous flying, and obviously lousy moderating, but there's bad eggs in any hobby. With the internet of course, it's far easier to find said bad-eggs, even if they are few and far between.
However, it wasn't that long ago when people would do stupid things with LOS flying as well.
I remember reading an older (maybe late 1980s?) R/C modelling magazine discussing the authors trials learning to fly a larger glow model in a parking lot. The story was obviously making light of how ignorant they were to the danger at the time, but this was an informal club flying and crashing .60 sized models in a built up area.
Dangerous, sure. But it was happening, and I'm sure occasionally still does.
What I'm saying is we don't have a perfect track record either, and I guarantee the hobby will be looking back on some of the reckless behaviour today as completely absurd once we establish a new safety culture.
Give it some time.
What's really scary is an intelligent guy such as yourself, especially as a R/C modeler and moderator does stupid dangerous flights and then tries to justify it by referring to equally stupid things that occurred 30 years ago. You sir are in a better position than most of us, to help establish this NEW safety culture. Yet you choose to use your position to make it worse ??