ORIGINAL: J_R
By “they”, I assume you mean you and your club, and its officers. We (the AMA membership) just got rid of a Safety Code that tried to cover too many aspects of safety. It was unwieldy and had become so ambiguous that it had little meaning to the average member. The rule is simple enough: separate people from aircraft and do it with a flightline designed for the site that is safe.
Is there some issue within your club that prevents open discussion and coming to a reasonable solution? This problem is not new. It has existed about forever. FF, CL, RC all mixing at one site has presented the same issues. Conceptually, there is nothing new here.
At our club the Helicopters were way off to one end, behind the fence. They had a flight line which crossed the airplane flight line. Not only is it a long ways away but also seperated by a couple fences. AMA said they could not do it and that they had to move to the same flight line the aircraft were on. Now we have Helecopters on the aproach end where the airplanes are. Our club isn't that big and everyone works together but you can see the lack of forward thinking on there part.