i'll agree.....i'm fairly new myself but i'm always aware of my orientation to my plane and the flight line. one of the guys that taught himself to fly (flying around 5 yrs now) can't fly in a left hand pattern. he always flys right, which takes his plane right over the pit area. i've said something to him on numerous occasions that i didn't like nor appreciate him flying over my head. the last time (about 2 weeks ago) he brought a quickie 500 racer around buzzing our heads about 15 feet off the deck not once but twice. to make matters worse, there was a new guy present that was wanting help. i don't want either the new guy to get the wrong impression of me or safety issue or the other guy to get mad and quit flying with us. to make a long story short, i said something to the guy while his plane was in the air. he got mad, chopped the throttle, scuffed the landing, broke the engine mount, threw his plane in the back of his trailer and started storming around saying something about if he couldn't fly it he'd crash it.

luckily i was already loaded up and i just left. i've talked to him since then and we both spoke our peice, neither is mad i just don't like the idea of anyone flying over my head.

this is REMOTE CONTROLLED aircraft people. ELECTRONICS.....ANYTHING can go wrong at ANY time. just because i check my batteries before EVERY flight, just because I range check a reciever every time it is changed from plane to plane doesn't make me comfortable enough to fly my plane 15 feet over someone's head let alone the pit area. i would hate to visit a fellow flyer in the E.R. and explain to him "I screwed up".......