ORIGINAL: jetmech05
Red. this is a forum where we trade ideas and try to understand somone else's point......it makes no difference how many times someone responds...
maiden flights aren't so dangerous....it's just an unproven airframe....to suggest we not maiden an aircraft unless there are only 2 people at the field is ridiculous.......to try and maiden an airframe just minutes before the start time of an event is ridiculous as well.......
perhaps we need to amend events to something such as... event begins at 9AM ends at 5PM daily, open flying at the event site will be from 6PM to 8AM....no flying of any kind 1 hour before or 1 hour after the scheduled event time....
this now allows for night flying or maidens, or open flying at the event sites....it allows an hour for the crowds to arrive and leave....have pilot meetings whatever......
you stay within rule 4, and yet allow for pilots to still have fun and tweak or maiden airframes....remember this is not a business....for most of us this is a hobby...we are here to have fun
there is no need to rewrite rule 4......
I have no problem with rule 4. How and when untested planes are flown is up to the CD. I still attend a number of meets a year, from small flyins to events like SEFF and fail to see a problem . It would seem we are trying to invent a problem so that we can expound at length on it? There a 19 words in rule 4 - Now we are up to 60 posts discussing it. Soon we will be rivaling the US Congress - with probably the same results.