I didn't take it that way at all - in fact I thought it was a great safety article. There is a difference between doing low fast inverted flybys and just flying inverted at a safe altitude a safe distance from the pilot boxes. Too often folks simply fly too fast, too low and too close to other pilots to be considered safe. You may have the skill to do it (I feel I do) but just the same a radio glitch can happen at any moment - it's a factual risk that you must always consider in your flight time. It can ALWAYS happen at ANY time no matter the confidence in your gear. I range check my radio often with each model I fly it with. Beyond the radio safety issues there is also the example you set for other pilots. Novice pilots look up to better pilots abilities and maneuvers by nature. "Man, I want to be that good some day." One day they will be and they'll be endangering you the way you endangered them; when something bad happens who will be responsible? Something bad will eventually happen; I've seen it. Recently I had a confrontation with a younger pilot and his grandfather. We were flying at the same time and the kid was doing low fast flybys with his dago red/ys 110 combo. The low and fast passes I can handle here and there but he was doing them in between the runway and the pilot boxes. I landed at once and went to talk to his grandfater. I was a bit upset but I tried to be nice about it and ask him to impress upon his grandson how completely unsafe it was for him to do that.

The grandfather's response was exactly what this article references;

"If those other warbird pilots can do what they want why can't my grandson?" Then he called me a few expletives and told me where I could stick my safety concerns.

Those warbird pilots he's talking about stand out by the runway in a group of 5 or 10 or so pilots doing low and fast passes driving everyone out of the air while they do it. They just go up and down the length of the runway as fast and as low as they can with little regard for anyone else who is flying. Rather than standing at thepilot boxes they stand in a crowd in the center of the field. The other pilots can call out their intentions all they want but those guys are too far away from the rest of the pilots to hear them so it doesn't matter.

They are an example to younger pilots - they are doing something that looks extremely cool but in reality endangers everyone around them and endangers the hobby as a whole. Fields are lost from noise, and safety the most.

I do my best to not only be a good pilot and push my limits but to be a good example to other pilots. I'm not always successful but I don't expect to be - at least I try. do fly 3D but when I do it I make sure that I do it outside the pattern of regular flight or when the there are far fewer airplanes in the sky to get in the way and I do it beyond the far edge of the runway.