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Old 04-29-2009 | 08:56 PM
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Default Who's right or wrong?

Something that happened to me on Sunday got me thinking of who was in the right or wrong. Or what should have been done?

I fly sometimes at the local County park, with the Ranger's permission, along with quite a few other fliers. Nice, approx 20 acre area for flying with an occasional jogger or dog walker, as all other parts of the park are in another separate area. And yes we clear the area for the joggers/walkers.

Anyhow on Sunday I'm there with a few other fliers, have my .25 Cub out flying, well within the park boundaries, which are outlined by tree lines.

One of the local news helicopters comes over the trees, just above them, and crosses the park. I was in his path as he came across the trees, I zigged and he zagged.
I dropped down out of the way, and he continued across the park and where other's were flying, he knew I was there as we both avoided each other, and there were a lot bigger r/c planes flying then mine so I can't think he didn't see them, but he kept on flying right across the park, at the same altitude. Last I saw him he was still at the same altitude when he went out of sight.

If we had met, undoubtedly my Cub would have been toast, and who knows what it would have done to the heli.

So here's my question. Who was in the wrong/right? I could understand being wrong if I was flying close to an airport and in flight traffic lanes, but this area doesn't fall into either of those. And I was no where near 400 feet in altitude, more like 75 feet as he and I were nearly level, just above the trees. And I was inside the boundries of the park.

We do get a lot of military flights across the field, but they are near speck sized as they cross, as the base is approx 40 miles away, ditto the commercial one.

So are flights like this now something else I have to be on the alert for constantly. And I just now thought of this, what if this would have happened over a regular R/C field?

What happens then when a full size comes in that low over an operating field?