RE: Mid-air this weekend. Anyone to balme??
I used to think midairs were completely avoidable...until I had one.
I was training somebody on training night (6 planes in the air) when one of the best pilots in our club (also training) started a loop. I noticed I was going towards him (I glance quickly to keep tabs on where people are), so I assumed that he was climbing to keep proper separation. He came back around and the second he came out of the loop...BOOM!!! I saw it a split second before it happened and pulled hard left since he looked like he was to the right if anything but it the second I started to bank we collided. We couldn't have done that if we tried. Both airplanes were a total loss, they literally exploded and we never found the engines.