Originally Posted by
porcia83
Radio glitches, gotta love that one . Had our giant scale event this weekend and had 6 warbirds go in for one reason or another. Giant P-51 ran out of gas going downwind and had plenty of room to just glide down to a belly landing into short or tall grass. Nope, instead he tries for hard dive and turn into the wind for a short approach on the runway. As soon as he turned in his wing dropped and he literally fell out of the sky. I hear later that he says his 2.4 system got "shot down", perhaps a brown out. Um, no, not a single person there didn't realize what he did. As for the spotter issue, I don't think many will be able to "save" the pilot if something goes wrong, although I have seen a few cases of that at our field. For the most part though these MR units are not that high off the ground and tend to fall within feet of where they lose it.
Yep , just once I'd like to see someone do what I do when I dumb thumb one , before the wood even stops flying I yell "FREE BALSA !!!! GET YOUR FREE BALSA HERE !!!!" and when the first flying buddy says "what happened ?" I say "Damn ground got in my way again , , see that ? , ,I almost missed it" with a wink and wouldn't shame myself nor insult their intelligence by claiming it as anything else other than good ol fashioned dumbthumbs , just like what everybody saw ......
Originally Posted by
rcmiket
I understand what your trying to say but must point out that the FAA really pretty much left us to "self police" ourselves until recently. Pretty obvious whats changed to get their attention.
I'm still trying to understand how someone wearing a headset has "line of sight"...........................but I'm not very smart.
Mike
Mike , this is exactly why I was in favor of the old #550 , and don't much like the new one , and it's also why I think the new #550 don't set well with the FAA ; No PIC's eyes directly on the prize ....