I'm sorry to say I see a very troubling trend here. There are those that will ask, regardless of pin location and possession out of common courtesy in the attempt to prevent a loss. Then there are those that agree that courtesy is a good thing and they extend it all the time but if you don't have the pin while you are flying, the comment will be something like; "too bad, sorry 'bout your plane, but you didn't have the pin when I got here." How hard is it to ask "hey, what channel you on?"

I fly at quite a few different fields. Perhaps I'm too "old school" but at each and every one of them I look around and talk to the people there before I turn anything on or fly. That includes prior to obtaining a pin. There was a time when I flew at a field that had hundreds of members (Miles Square Park) before the advent of a pin system. All we did was line the transmitters up. If you were the first one there someone coming in next would ask what frequency you were on and wait if necessary. Shoot downs were not very common, and when there was either money changed hands or there was an a--whuppin. Running away meant never flying there again.

Seems to me that some of the old ways should be resurrected. I think I'll just fly with all the courteous folk and leave the legal eagles for another life. It appears that I was quite correct in the earlier post where I mentioned that far too many people are under the impression that "it's all about me, and so what about anyone else".