ORIGINAL: MormonMike
OK guys heres a different one. A friend of mine from upstate New York who flys quite regularly and lives about 25 minutes from an AMA site says he's "fed-up" with other locals who are not club members flying off of open fields close enough to his homeflying site that he is taking "hits" whenever he decides to fly at his personal site at his home. He stated that he feels its in his rights to leave on his TX and also to have a spare TX to leave on before, during and after his flying. This is supposedly to bring down anyone else that might be flying on his Freq. His logic is to safely fly his own expensive RC's and not to care about anything else in the area on his channels. I did'nt know what to say. I know its wrong but what can I say to him without starting a fight [or at least, a very heated argument] Request replys please.[
] MM.
MM-
In answer to your question, you can say absolutely nothing within your constraints of not arousing his animosity. Seems pretty obvious he doesn't hold that back - if somebody exercising their rights interferes with his, then to hell with them, shoot them down. Just like the good old days of beef cattlemen shooting sheep and their keepers on the open range. Say, last time I went through Utah there appeared to be a lot of open range left - maybe you could suggest he move there?
FCC rules would be hard to apply as it would be unlikely that evidence sufficient to convict could be gathered without his cooperation - not likely. Pretty much the same deal with a civil case brought against him by somebody he shot down - gotta prove it. So, he can probably do it and get away with it as far as the law is concerned. But then there's justice frontier style, and if I were among his victims, it would be served on him with due dilligence.
BTW, why is this guy your friend?
Abel