RE: What safety related rules does your club have that are really good?
Hossfly, I don't know if it is fair to ridicule the so-called "Hot-Shots". These are the guys that push the bubble and keep our sport from dying out.
Is it possible you guys are just a bunch of old "fuddy duddies?" Perhaps a little envious?
Unless you are a hot-shot, you don't make it in military jets. Some of them buy the farm but you are expected to continually push the bubble, and hard. If you aren't a hot-shot, you won't live very long in a jet fighter. The enemy will get you quickly.
In our club, we encourage our pilots to continually push the bubble and applaude them when they do it well. The guy doing the 3d should be encouraged in your club. You might learn from him.
We have seen no connection between 3d flying and safety. They do their thing over the runway and normally, because we only have 45 members, there are usually only two aircraft in the air at the same time. This brings up another subject. The Safety Rules a Club has are in direct relation to the number of members in the Club. A Club with 100 members might have more safety rules as would a club with 200 members.
Club Safety Rules then, are related to how many members in the Club and quite often, those rules are a question of geographics, airport design and other factors.
3dbob