Its still early and I hope more folks chime in but from the few posts so far here's what I'm seeing shaping up.

There are I think 3 camps of thought here:

1) Respect the fact that our planes can cause injury/damage and that people not in this sport are afraid for their safety if our planes are flying overhead or close. Be a good neighbor and avoid flying near their site.

2) The flying club was here first, stand up to those bikers..their sport isn't safe anyway.

3) Shoot 'em down (I assume that means shoot down the planes that fly out of bounds).

Not surprisingly, that mimics the thoughts at our club. I would say that the pilots that are not obeying the rules are primarily in the 2nd category of thinkers. They don't believe those rules are needed so they aren't inclined to follow them.

The problem with that is a few people that think like category 2 are putting the clubs future at risk for everyone.

So it comes back to how do you get everyone to really understand the need for the no fly zone rules, and what, specifically, have other clubs done to address the problem of some pilots ignoring them.


Scar, saw your KLONDIKE suggestion after posting this...I'll have to think about it, there might be something there...