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Old 05-17-2006 | 12:11 AM
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Default RE: Field Ettitiquite

Club ettiquite? What's that? [&:]

Being one of the younger members to a club of mainly 50+ year old folks, people treat me as a new pilot. One time, me and Sun_Kissed_Girl and her instructor went out to go retrieve a landing gear that fell off her Nexstar and her instructor yelled, "We are going on the Runway!!!" to the spotter and he approved after talking to the pilots. Well, we got the gear back and were about 400 feet from the pits, and in the middle of the runway headed toward the far side of the runway, when we see this airplane on final comming straight toward us! SKG's instructor yells at the pilot, who barley misses hitting any of us. Then, as we were walking on the side of the runway toward the pits, the same guy is on final AGAIN and headed toward us again. The spotter yells at him and he goes around and we jog back to the pits. Keep in mind this pilot also hogs the sky, does really fast really loud fly bys, and has little respect for anyone else. If I did such a thing, I would've gotten my membership card ripped up, but that guy still flies with us. One time, the club president said there was a heli at the end of the runway, but I could not see it and I was on final on the other side of the runway. I planted the airplane to avoid hitting the heli. I also planted a foamie because I was flying in restricted airspace (but I didn't know that at the time since it wasn't restricted the weekend before) and did not want to endanger anyone. And you have this guy who nearly hit three people with a airplane.

I agree with everyone that every club has a few jerks. No one flys with this guy anymore after he nearly hit the only female member of our club with an airplane.