I still question how dangerous hovering and especially hovering on the deck really is. Although Captin232 brings up a good point about the plane going any which way gravity makes it to go, when you are on the deck, it really doesn't happen that way. A wrong input sends it to the dirt. In the probros where 20 to 30 pilots all hover at one time right over the runway and try to hover until they crash or can't hover any longer, none of the planes end up in the pitts. They all simply tumble onto the turf seldom even damaging the plane.

That being said, I think a large plane hovering up about 20 to 50 feet over the runway could be a problem. When this pilot looses it, it's not going to just flop over on the ground, it is going to flop over and be heading down in some direction at full throttle. To me this is really not much different than any other aerobatic maneuver right over the runway...one wrong input and nobody knows what way it is going to be heading, the plane is not just continuing on the same path giving you time to get out of the way. It is just as "out of control" and as unpredictable as the hovering pilot that lost control.

With so much hovering going on lately, an accident will eventually happen. I just hope people realize that it really doesn't happen often, and certainly less often than say new pilots, inexperienced pilots, bad pilots, pilots who fly marginal planes etc. I have no doubt that there will be some that say, see I told you so, now we need rules to stop all that foolishness.