OK, this has been bugging me since last week when it happened. I didn't say anything to the guys at the field because I'm the new guy and I'm not even sure I'm right.


We had a plane go down in the bushes at the far side of our field. My instructor went out with the guy to dig thru the blackberry brush and get it.

While they were out there Two other guys started flying again. This in and of itself is probably ok, theres a lot of airspace that would have been safe I suppose, so I wasn't too concerned.

Then one of the guys, a teenager (19 I think) Starts doing his usual hard core aerobatics RIGHT OVER the area these folks are digging for a plane in. Now the banter from my instructor earlier when he arrived had been he loses planes because he flies them so hard, so all I could think was "geeze he gonna put that thing in right on top of them..."

I fully expected my instructor to talk to them both when he came back about it, but he didn't say a word about it.

Should I have said something? is it ok to fly when theres people down field getting an aircraft? Am I overreacting, or am I right that at the very least they should have kept there aircraft in airspace well away from those out getting a plane back?

(PS the plane they were fishing out was an old WWII warbird, I thought was a T-38 but its more like the Avenger without the tail gun that went in on maiden. Engine died and the pilot tried to turn too sharply to bring it around, tip stalling it . No real damage done, leading edge damage on the wing but easily repairable.)