RE: RE: JPO Position Paper Regarding The New Turbine Regulations
Yes... and we need to stand up to the ones who fly the best... when they do something that is inherantly stupid.
Just being a marvelous stick-pusher doesn't mean you will always be smart in thinking of the consequences of your AMAZING feat at some contest.
You have some S*** H** guy do something that makes the crowd go WOW! and at first it ALWAYS seems like a WONDERFUL thing.... then you get someone not so perfect at controlling his plane thinking its "OK to try it at home" Even though some guy in the back of the crowd had, right from the start of the maneuver, started hollering "UNSAFE!" everyone says... "Its OK... Mr S H knows what he's doing." A few weeks later... 1/2 the guys at the local flying field start egging thier club's best of the best to try it... Maybe he gets lucky and succeeeds, more often... balsa splinters. Then the lesser pilots try it... closer in "so I can see better." and eventually someone manages to whack off a finger... or an arm or his neck.
Safety lines always get pushed. You don't enforce em... they fall and someone ALWAYS gets hurt. Then the [:'(]Lawyers[:'(] get to have a party.