Woj,

Actually this is not true, in the case of a house fire, something will have gone wrong, of course not deliberate or intentional, but it will have gone wrong. Same as a road vehicle or aircraft crash of any description, something will have gone wrong. In the UK Road accidents have now been redefined as "collisions" because something or someone was at fault, perhaps this is because we are now far more litigious than ever before, but whilst deliberate acts are a different type of collision, there is no such thing as an accident.[:-] Incidentally there are fewer house fires now than 10 years ago, the Fire Service in the UK claim that's down to education and prevention as well as ensuring people have an escape route in mind, safety features??

I have admired your aircraft, willingness to speak frankly and have a great deal of respect for you from everything I have seen from here. But joking it is and is so many words too, but you suggest in one of your posts that your next crash is about due. So from that and you statement about inevitability, you would suggest crashes are inevitable. Pragmatically I agree with you, in the model world the quality of equipment we use, the materials and our building and assembly skills are variable. We as model pilots do not have to amount X number of flying hours before we can get a licence or progress to another type of aircraft, of various capabilities, so something will slip through the net , equipment failure, pilot mistake, external influence and at some point and bang, wallop the old wallet gets hurt.

If that's the case, then we should always ensure we fly with a "margin for error" so when that wheel comes off, we take it on board as part of the rigours and frustrations of this hobby. Yeah sure, full size will crash too despite best efforts, and that is the nub, if we make best efforts, than I beleive as you have suggested all we can do is minimalise the occurences. However if we do this in isolation of safer flying practices, we still have the rogue element that could cause the injuries death and destruction of peoples lives. Remorse does not comfort.

I am new still and hope I am not whinging having the record stuck, being a fish wife or whatever, but if that's what it takes to get the message through then call me Old Mrs Gazzer.

Most of the current safety debates were inaugarted following the death of 2 people, is it really a problem less than a month since they lost their lives, to keep the thoughts active?

Old Mrs Gazzer