Gordon
how does adding an extra day of sanction help people do maidens during the no-maidens allowed sanctioned day that is before the main event at a site tat is not a chartered club ?
As I said above: “My suggestion to sanction an extra day for maidens implied the use of the technicality at a non-AMA chartered club field.” Apparently, I need to explain it for you. The CD should not be in attendance at the field on the extra day. In that way, the landlord is covered and the sanction is not in force. After considering the rest of your post, I will withdraw even that idea.
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Most of this discussion has been about a technicality that allows a maiden flight to be performed on the date of a sanction. It never occurred to me that any CD would be so callous or insensitive to safety that those flights might be performed in the middle of an event.
Not even after me pointing it out several times ?
I honestly believed that you were trying to make a point, not describing what actually happens. There is a considerable difference. I now understand you to be saying these actions do, indeed, take place.
Now, on the one hand you seem to be willing to rely on the CD being sensible enough to schedule the maidens at a sensible time (by him not leaving during the busy periods), yet on the other hand you don't seem to be willing to rely on the same CD being sensible enough to say that "A maiden can be done while I am on-site, but it will be done when I say so, based on my assesment of the crowd situation etc.". Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Are these guys trustworthy to decide when it is a safe time or not ? If they are trustworthy, let them determine the time when the maiden may be done in his presence ; if they are NOT trustworthy, then write the rules such that the period during which the guy must be off-site for a maiden may not occur during the core event hours.
Which is it to be ?
Accepting your assertion that these actions do take place in the middle of an event, quite literally, putting thousands of people at risk, I do not see any choice but that the AMA close the loophole, slam the door on maidens at events, and prohibit them in the regular safety code for all events, so that no one may expose bystanders to risk.
I can’t even guess at the wording such a rule will take. You have certainly made your point.