In the vast majority of cases Dylan its like looking for non existant ghosts. Many folks cannot face the fact that they scrwed up and will always look for the easy excuse. Its a common natural reaction.

Yes someone deliberatly shooting down aircraft can and has happened in some well documented cases, at least one well known from about twenty years ago in Los Angeles resulted in jail time for the perpertrator.

The point is its extremely rare but yet every field seems to have rumors of a mystery bomber.


Also on strickly a local basis it is common for some channels to actually suffer from interferance, In many cases this is from legal industrial users that are between each of the Rc channels. These users are officially 'primary' users and we are officially 'secondary' users which mean is there is a conflict we must cease and desist. Local channels that may have this problem are however easily identifiable in most cases.

So I suspect most of your local problem is in fact the result of human nature. It gets kinda funny at times when watching a crash that is very obviously a problem with the pilot and nothing else. This indivudual will immediately complain of radio interferrance to everyone in earshot and then pretty soon everyone in earshot is chiming in with mystery crashs on such and such a channel. Pretty soon the 'Mystery Bomber' becomes the scapegoat and everyone feels better.

John