ORIGINAL: XpastywhiteboyX
Hello all,
Im the VP of my club and recently we had a blowout in my club. I am hoping to save someone out there some greif. Untill now we had a curved flightline. What i mean by this is runway in front and off to the north side (behind the runway) we alowed parkflyers and foamys to fly. To the south side helicopters. We asked the AMA if this was legal or if we needed to change it well oviously it clearly states NO FLYING BEHIND THE FLIGHT LINE. We were frusterated because no one wants foamys out over the runway wile your landing your 40% carden. We found this to be obserd but had to enforce it. One of us decided to fight it. We found out that you cant fly behind the flightline but nothing says you cant have more than one flightline. So to make a long story short we now have 3 flightlines. I hope someone can learn from this.
The situation you describe is very similar to one of the clubs I fly at. The main runway is E-W and flight stations are on the N side. Helis fly to the NE and behnd the main flightline. Park flyers and sailplanes fly to the NW and behind the main flightline. Turbines use the main flightline, and nobody else flys while they do. It just makes sense to keep the slower and hovering models separated from the airspace occupied by fast pattern, sport and warbird models. JR posted the applicable rule re 'curved flightline.' Don't know who you asked at AMA or why, but whomever, my response to him would be that we are compliant with the Safety Code by having a curved flighline as prescribed, and it happens to be an oval around the pits and parking area.
Abel