ORIGINAL: N1EDM
Plumber, you are correct about the Intermod, and yes that is what I was getting at in my original post. But if you look a couple of posts below the one that you quoted from, you'll see that I admitted that I was on the wrong path - i.e., The Intermod issue is not being discussed here.
Just trying to keep folks on track, and not follow the wrong tangent that I inadvertantly started...
My reason for bothering to explain that intermod has nothing to do with the "25 foot rule" is because not so very long ago a "fellow" club member tried to have me expelled from the club, during the next monthly club meeting, by claiming that I intentionally tried to shoot his model down by passing within 25 feet of him when I was leading my student back to the flight station.
One of the tricks I sometimes use is to walk the less astute student(s) down to the end of the runway so they can have a better perspective of how far off the runway centerline they have aligned the model on short final. In this instance, we were walking back to 'our' flight station and passed maybe 10 feet behind the "complainant".
More importantly, to me anyway, was the fact that a couple of other self-appointed field nazis in that particular club jumped on the bandwagon at that meeting and demanded that any pilot approaching within 25 feet of another pilot be taken to task by having their flying privileges suspended for six months, on the basis that such 'offenders' were obviously attempting to shoot down other models.
Fortunately for me and the majority of the other club members, we do still try to follow what Mr. Robert said about the way club meetings ought to be run, i.e. that both sides of a 'story' be heard. Only took me a few seconds to expose The Three Wise Men as technological ignoramuarios.
I was not aware that it is considered "off topic" to correct commonly held misconceptions regarding the reasons we have the few rules we do have. I certainly won't ever do _that_ again.
Bye now.