ORIGINAL: IL2windhawk
ORIGINAL: piper_chuck
I don't think I've ever seen a field where they made the pilots stand 150 feet from the runway to fly. That would cause trouble for people with depth perception problems. In my experience, 15-20 is more the norm. Isn't the fence the thing that divides the runway from the place the pilots are supposed to stand while they're flying?
My apologies.
By "pilot stand" I thought you were referring to the pilot pit area.
I was trying to make it clear that I didn't land the aircraft that close to spectators.
Accepted. The reason we're mentioning this is because most of us have been in the situation while flying where planes come so close to us that we started thinking about an escape route, or actually had to escape. In my club I will not fly if certain people are in the air. If they take off while I'm flying I will immediately land and seek shelter. Obviously nobody else was on the flight line at that time, but it's not a good idea to get in the habit of using that part of the runway.