ORIGINAL: Bob Mitchell
ORIGINAL: abel_pranger
Better suggestion: get over the "idiot members of the "flying public" crap. Fact is only a very tiny percentage of Americans that fly model airplanes are AMA members, and of AMA members, only about half belong to AMA chartered clubs. Forking over $58/yr to AMA and dues to a club does not confer responsibility and good judgment on anyone.
Who's to blame if the club loses their flying site and kills the public flying too? People with attitudes like you and Robocop.
Abel
I think "idiot members of the flying public" is an apt description of those that have chosen to fly their own planes within range of an existing club, and who apprarently have no desire to work with the existing club to come up with some sort of frequency sharing agreement. I'm certainly not talking about non-AMA (or non-club) flyers in general. Rather, just those that are putting their own equipment in jeopardy, not to mention that of the existing club, and don't seem to care. The description fits for THEM. What they are doing is stupid, and I'm not going to back off of that characterization. My guess is that if such happened to a club to which you belonged you would have even stronger words for those that shot down your aircraft or that of a fellow club member.
I've offered a couple of suggestions as to what the club should do, and what the possible outcomes might be. Do you have any alternatives or suggestions of your own or do you just prefer to pontificate about what you THINK I meant?
Again, if you've got ideas then I'm all ears. What should be done to resolve the situation? The guy came here looking for suggestions as to what his club could do. I offered one. Approaching the county to work out some sort of frequency agreement does NOT put the club in a position of having tried to "shut down" the non-club flyers. That way, if the second site does get shut down it's beause the county decided to do so, not as a result of a request by the club. Due to the potential liability, the county has a vested interest in making sure that planes aren't randomly going out of control as a result of interference.
Do you have anything to offer them beyond that?
Hey Hot Shot,
For someone who has been flying since April of this year, you sure are full of advice. You seem to have all the answers, but I'll bet you haven't heard half of the questions. I would suggest that you get a little time in grade before you start trying to make the rules.
Or is this something that your pal Mark has told you to say? Keep on trying to earn your check. You'll get there.
Bill, AMA 4720