ORIGINAL: SoCal GliderGuider
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ORIGINAL: SoCal GliderGuider
The direction that HSS wants to take the PUBLIC park is similar to the direction the Laguna Niguel flyers did with their local Lilly Shapel Park (LSP). This involves a flying test and the deputization of club members so they can turn in their fellow flyers to the city AND the demand to see $1,000,000 of personal liability insurance. An unreasonable sum.
A "flying and safety test" would effectively eliminate half of the 70 or so club members including one or two of the four working on the proposal with the city. Then there is also a limit as to how many sailplanes can be in the air at one time. Even during contests.
I personally have no problems with a flying and safety test. The FAA gives them all the time and washes out pilots who can't or won't cut the mustard.
I also have no problems with a single entity such as the HSS or LNF being in charge of a flying facility or following a set of safey rules established by an organization such as the AMA.
But, with no controlling legal authority at Fairview Park, who's to say what is too big or too powerful to fly there?
Sure, you can express an opinion about the matter, but who's going to listen and take action? Again, you can ask the zagi flyers to stay away from the townhouses, but, you can only ask, not enforce.
You don't want the city nor the AMA involved as they cramp your style.
So, what's the solution?
And for the record, it wasn't the brainless electric dolts who lost the Redondo Beach site. It was the brainless glider guider dolts.