heliyyt,
You probably won't find any jet flyers out at Sarasota Field this weekend. They have gotten so bad at that field that we (turbine flyers) have all pretty much decided we don't want anything to do with that club. Let me give you some background...the field runs east to west. To the north the county has built a big maintenance building and to the west they have built a kennel. When we fly we have to stay well within the confines of the boundaries and not fly over those buildings. Mind you we have never had a problem with the restrictions and have tried to fly within the boundaries (we do slip occasionally) that we were given. Over the last few weeks though the president and the safety officer (someone who hates jets) have been giving us a load of crap everytime we go out there. Now it is at the point that hey have told us if you fly out the boundaries again you will be thrown out the club. Sound familiar to any other club in FL?
I personally got a call from the President one night stating that they have had complaints from the county about the jet flyers and that we have to control ourselves, and here is where it gets interesting. The same day we were out flying my friend brought out his MIG-15, but never flew it because he was having problems getting it started. Well the pres. brings up the fact that the red airplane with the star on the tail was reported by either someone at the county or club member saying he was out of the boundaries. When I brought up the fact that the plane never flew, he back peddled saying that he meant the person who owned that plane. Well that right there just put a bad taste in my mouth. Now the jet members have made note of all the times we have see a prop plane out of the "box" but have never heard of one person in say something to them about it or heard of anything being done about it. I will not be joining this club again, I was going to join to take my 6 year old son out there to teach him how to fly but I don't want my son being anywhere near these hypocrites.
The last thing I will say about this club is that if you read their newsletter they have stated, "They have the potential to be the #1 RC Club america." Well I have to disagree with that and say that their attitude at that field makes it one of the worst. So anyone who flys jets have fun and go on out there, you probably won't want to go back after that.

Patrick.