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Whoa.... someone brought a can of gasoline to the bar-b-que!!!!

We fly out of a cow pasture, with no freq board, but there is seldom more than 8-10 planes on the flight line at a time. The usual procedure is to walk the pits before you start, and ask everyone what they are flying on. If you find someone using the same freq as you, you maintain better contact with them, and take turns. We also call out our freq number before firing up every time. These aren't rules, we just do it out of habit I guess.

To my knowledge there has never been a shoot down in the 11 years I have been flying at our site.

As for safety and structure at the field, AMA has a suggested guideline for how a field should be laid out, pits, spectator areas, fly and no fly zones. Suggested doesn't mean it's the law, and our pasture has none of these things either. We have had some close calls (a crash near the flight line or two) but we have had worse close calls at our other field which is to the letter like the AMA layout (crashes into the spectator areas)

The bottom line is have fun, be safety concious and considerate toward others and you should be fine. If someone bothers you, ignore them, avoid them, or pee in their fuel. They will be home for a week trying to figure out why their engine doesn't run, and you won't have to worry about them bothering you.

Dan

(Why do I always go for shock factor???)