RE: newby looses plane while taxiing
You guys go about AMA while here in Colombia there is no governing body whatsoever. Insurance companies wont even issue insurance for our hobby so if you get paranoid and start thinking about it a lot, there is no way you'll be flying.
I totally agree with safety nazis although I'm to young compared to the regular members at my club to be ranting about safety, they wouldn't take me seriously so I spend my time being paranoid in my head and moving my stuff around to avoid irresponsible people. Despite all safety measures at my field, someone almost got killed last week and it was nobody's fault. There was a heli pilot using the main airplane runway (with everyone's approval) which is actually safer than the heli area because its wider and has got less possible obstacles. He's not a pro but hes a fairly good pilot and never tends to lose orientation. He was starting to practice loops on his heli and as he was in the middle of one of those, a heavy gust hit him and his heli came down at about 80mph onto and into the main hangar. It ripped right through the metal ceiling and crashed between two pilots who where in the hangar at the time. The oil stain in the floor was 2ft shy of one of the guys. It would have killed one of them with no doubt. I was about 100ft away and was shaking for about 20 minutes after this happened, I could not fly again that day.