RE: Whose air is it?
There is nothing wrong with flying at your house. But, full scale always have the right of way. Have you checked an aviation sectional to find out if you are in military or controlled airspace? That is where you should start. I would bet that the A-10 pilots never even saw your plane. The fact that they left when you landed is probably just a coincidence. If an A-10 cut right under your little glider, it would have at least been tossed around like no tomororrow or destroyed from all the tubulance. If they were on a practice flight over your property, then you are in the wrong. Any practice flights by the military are announced on a sectional. The particular hours of practice are announced on a full scale radio frequency. If full scale planes can't fly through their practice area, what makes you feel that you can fly your models in their practice area?
I was flying through the Ohio-Kentucky border in a Cessna 182 during a military practice mission. I was cleared to fly through at only 500 Ft. AGL, that should have kept me 2500 Ft below the F-16's above me. Appearently, one of them botched a maneuver, as I saw him about a mile in front of me screaming through the bottom of a maneuver at several hundred miles per hour. It scared the heck out of me. I was very happy when I was well clear of their area.
I am kind of shocked at the tone of your posts in this thread. I don't know how you could you even think that you have the right of way. You own the land, not the air. Check out the airspace regulations above you before you fly your models. If you down a military acft. with your model (even accidentaly), I gaurantee that you will face prison time... Ignorance of the laws is no excuse!