ORIGINAL: J_R
ORIGINAL: Montague
Ah, thanks Mongo, I have 0-zip knowledge or experience with non-flying events and whatever is involved with them. If I wind up involved with one, I'll have to read up. It's good to know what I don't know, you know?
J_R, so, in the case of an event at a club field, the event starts and stops with the CD's presenance for the whole day? Intersting. I guess that means that if I run an event at my home field, I can't sport fly after the contest is long done, and all the competitors are gone. I should stay home, just in case some goofball club member does something stupid while I'm around. Strange. But I guess that also means that I can keep someone I don't like from flying on that day, huh? That could be fun [>:] (just kidding about that part)
What would you do if you were not at a sanctioned event, not a CD, not a club officer, and some goofball did something stupid? Isn't that really the question?
That's one of the questions, and a good one: who has the authority to deal with the goofball that is acting stupidly? Might transfer responsibility/control back from CD to the club, if it's a club field, but if it isn't, then what? Montague in post #16 said CD obtains the sanction. If that is so, I presume the owner of the event site would reasonably expect that individual, as an agent of AMA, to be responsible for the duration of the event, from the time the gate is opened until the last participant leaves.
Is it SOP to inform him that the CD and AMA are not responsible for what occurs on his property when the CD is not there? Is he informed that the liability risk he is exposed to is not shared by AMA when the CD is off-premises? Is he told that activities may occur during the event that are against AMA policy and rules (e.g., flying of untested models), and when that is a part of the program, AMA has told the CD he must leave the premises so as to isolate themselves from liability that may arise from those activities? I would like see just what 'standard form' representations are made to event site owners concerning their liability. Pointer?
Abel