Those of you that want to continue to argue that it is ok to do this, you need to realize something. Just as in my example in an earlier post about Darren Eaton having his mishap, these mishaps can happen to anyone. The real issue is, there will be that one time when someone is standing on the runway admiring his own skills to hover low right in front of himself. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE HAS ONE OF THESE MISHAPS AND THE PLANE DISABLES HIM? Say the prop strikes your arm, you drop the TX and the plane is now headed toward other people, what do you do? NOT A DAMN THING! YOU CAN'T! yeah, it hasn't happened to anyone yet, but I guarantee you it will. When it does, it is going to bring bad publicity to the hobby. It will bring more regulations.

Fact of the matter is, I don't give a crap about you if that is the way you want to do things, but YOU need to be responsible when there are others at the field. NO MAJOR or MINOR event should allow the pros to do these things. Yeah it is cool to watch, but not worth the consequences. Do it when you are the only one at the field that way you are only risking YOUR life and noone elses. All of these manuevers can be done from a distance that is far enough away for you to "FEEL CLOSE", but have plenty of time to react.