ORIGINAL: STLPilot
ORIGINAL: k3 valley flyer
Kid will be interesting to see how long before your last post gets deleted. Your points are exactly why my club will only allow full dues regular AMA holders, we don't want the liabilities that will come with two tiers of insurance and membership and exposure to suits that we were neglient because we did not stop the PPP guy from flying something he wasn't insured for. You know even the PPP member could sue us if he hurt himself with something bigger than the limits his PPP membership calls for, you know we should have stopped him before he hurt himself because we knew he was only PPP insured, qualified, experienced, etc etd etc. What a can of WORMS!
So wait. Every day your club members follow the AMA safety code to a "T"? You're members NEVER fly in a dangerous manner? All day, every day, 365 days a year your members follow the EXACT AMA safety code verbatim?
Nobody hand catches?
Every one of your members has their AMA numbers and name marked on their planes?
Nobody has ever flown a plane after just 1 beer?
Nobody ever flies about 400'?
A child under 6 ever get passed your pits?
You do realize that ANY deviation in the safety code constitutes a pilot possibly flying without insurance. But the PPP's are that incompetent that they can't understand a 2 lb and < 60 mph??? Who are the ones that can't understand how simple this is ... the PPP's or the people whom are so afraid of it? This is a question, not aimed at anyone.
Oh my God! STL has hit it on the head! 'Cmon guys, fess up! You know he is telling the truth. AMA numbers and names in the plane? One beer? How 'bout that nasty hangover? 400ft, oh, that's just starting...Children passed the pits--everyday. Hand catches? Oh yeah! That's the fun of it...even gliders...AMA safety code...bahhh humbug...only at your conviencence!!!!![>:]
Really,there are only critical phases of flight (takeoff, climbout, short final, flare, touchdown and roll-out). Dangerous manner is preception...3D is dangerous manner...High speed inverted low approach is dangerous manner...Snap roll at departure end of runway is dangerous manner...Taking off is dangerous manner...landing is dangerous manner...Heck! Flying is dangerous manner, cause we are not in the aircraft!!!!!!! We cannot tell if and when a control linkage will let go...Come on people, what really is a dangerous manner...My perception is different than yours. Yours is differnt than mine...Which perception is correct. WE can argue that all day! And then, there is that one instance we can agree.
Yes, there are times when the AMA safety code needs to be adhered to, to a point. But, we know when those times are. Let's not be so ridgid that we don't bend a little. (ok, anal!) And if someone is not familiar with those specific times, just educate the individual.
Mean Monte