ORIGINAL: southern_touch9
Come on Doug,
Your using a few isolated cases where this has happened. Lets compare the amount of these cases to the cases of High speed aircraft crashes into the pits and into cars, and beginners getting dumb thumbs. Without any info in front of me I think it would be safe to assume that % wise hovering down on the deck is a very small portion of out of control crashes into the pit area.
That's just 3 cases that I know of personally, and I never said hovering down low was a problem. It's not.. it's when people take it too far into the realm of stupidity and start grabbing the airplanes or bouncing them off the ground that things can get out of control. Seems to me like some of you are so worried about someone telling you that you can't do something, that you're missing the fact that the very thing they want you not to do is just plain dumb in the 1st place.
As for the actual rule.. you guys need to read it. People are forming opinions based upon incomplete/incorrect information. Here is the exact verbage..
Taken from the 2004 AMA Safety Code:
Rule 8:
With the exception of events flown under AMA Competition rules, after launch,
except for pilots or helpers being used, no powered model may be flown closer than 25 feet to any person.
Rule 9:
Under no circumstances may a pilot or other person touch a powered model in flight, nor should any part of the model other than the landing gear intentionally touch the ground, except while landing.