ORIGINAL: blwblw
I'm not against some safety precautions, but I am against over regulation out of a blind obsession to prevent every single accident. Saw it for years in the service. Some things make sense. I saw way more stupid restrictions made by over reacting people. Before anyone knew it, we were flying less and had a lot of flight profiles prohibited. Honestly, a lot of these safety decisions ended up making things more dangerous in the long haul.
Well said, and I agree 100%. As our US government has proven time and time again, more regulations make things worse, not better.
This was an accident, and no matter what anyone does short of banning R/C aircraft alltogether, there will be accidents and deaths in the future. Bank on it.
I'm not making light of the situation, but if this plane supposedly flew a circuit around a barn, behind some trees, etc etc for some time while out of control, it seems that the victim, had he been paying close attention would have had time to avert being hit. And I wasn't there so I really don't know for sure, but I know that when I'm at the field, my eyes are in the sky all the time. If ANYTHING is headed in my direction, I'm ready to jump behind something big and heavy quick.
Gordon, isn't the primary reason AMA has the fail-safe shutdown in turbines to prevent fires??
BasinBum, interesting theory. I'm all for conspiracy theories, but I don't think this is one that is valid. You never know, I might be wrong...[&:]