"Don't be stupid" I like it.

Everybody is so worried about somebody else cutting their finger on a prop or cutting off a finger or worse. Does somebody need to be told not to put their finger in a 10,000 rpm spinning whatever thingy, do they need to be told not to put their finger in the blender, do they need to be told not to play on the freeway? Let them lose a finger or 2 and then learn something from it. I have 2 young kids and I make sure they're safe but if I treated them like most clubs treat their members one day I'd have 2 50 year old kids that would never leave the house.

15 years ago I belonged to a 100 member club and there was zero checks for new pilots. Either they ask for help or they didn't. Now I belong to a 100 member club and there's a hundred different things on the checklist before a new member can solo even if they're obviously an acomplished pilot. Is there a different number of out of control planes crashing into the pits and killing a dozen people? No, there's nobody crashing into the pits.

IMO 500% more rules only add 0.1% more safety. It's a rules-fest to 1) stay up with the Jones. 2) add importance to the club. 3) somebody loves making rules.

An RC plane can kill people? Why not say, an RC plane can tear out your guts and you'll lay on the ground in intense pain for hours while you slowly bleed to death and nobody will help you. Scare tactic to validate rules/laws. Same goes for "we could lose our field."

I'm not saying all rules are bad or the intentions of more rules are bad but I've seen the details of the rules go way overboard many times.

loop - not required
roll - not required
landing - not required (can they crash land in the dirt on the far side of the runway?)
dead stick - not required (same as landing)
recovery from inverted - not required
taxi - not required (nobody taxis through the pits where your $5000 plane is so let them run off into the dirt and ruin a few props)
stall - not required (most trainers won't stall anyway)
can they fly in the pattern - not required (the most experienced pilots don't do it so why should anybody else have to?)

stay on the correct side of the flight line - required (I'd say this one is the only one required. As long as this happens there is no safety factor involved. planes on one side, humans on the other so no matter how bad the crash is nobody is hurt.)

Any adult can ask for help beyond this.

Mike