What happens at your club, if someone turns on their transmitter and shoots you down. Do they have to pay? This is the second time in three years.
Just for clarity, this is the topic of this thread even though it has gone in many directions!!
I asked our club Pres what happens if you have the pin and someone turns their radio no and destroys yours. I was told that the person who made the mistake is required to replace the destroyed model or come to an agreement about the replacement with the owner.
At what point is it too much? If I could somehow build a model worth $2 mil, would you feel you had to pay for it over a simple mistake? Would you actually attempt to do it?
Why should the person be limited by what you can afford to replace. Why should everyone be limited by what the poorest person in the club can afford? Say that the most you can afford to replace is $400 then everyone should be limited to that per your argument. What i want to know is why in the world would you even think of getting your radio out of impound, or even out of your vehicle when you knew that a $2 million dollar plane was getting ready to fly? The double standard is hilarious, everyone LOVES to see the big 3d plane, the nice warbird and the fast jet, but God forbid if i happen to damage one and have to pay for my mistake. When one comes to the field, everyone knows it and always watches in anticipation of seeing it fly. Why would you want to take a chance and fly at the same time if you knew that replacement was such a soft spot? It's only 7 minutes of the day that you have to wait to fly....... Also, you're going on the assumption that the person with the $2 million dollar plane has much more income where that came from. What if that person scrimped and saved, bought and sold over many years and everything that they had was in that 1 plane (much like your $350 dollar trainer). Then, thru someones negligence, mistake or whatever all of that was destroyed. Is it fair to ask them just to walk away with $350 or $500 and say 'that's all that i feel i owe you. After all, you really shouldn't have been flying that nice of a plane if you didn't want to loose it!!