avoidance rule

[george kennie]

I kinda like Frank Grannelli's idea regarding separation which could
even be expanded upon by canting both flight lines 30 degrees from
runway-parallel with the right station canted right(away from left
station) and left station canted left.Landings and take-offs would still
be aligned with the runway but the rest of the flight aligned with the
flight-line markers marked on the ground. After all, how many
mid-landing colisions have you observed.Probably would eliminate 99% of
all mid-airs and could easily be accomodated at places like Muncie and
probably quite a few others.Might encourage a few of the more timid
among us, who might be reluctant to to put their investment at risk, to
put their bird in the air.
Georgie

Bill Glaze wrote:

> Lance:
> Yes, it is highly useful, in my opinion.  I've found myself flying
> formation aerobatics several times in IMAC, and was able to call a
> break.  Judges later said they were relieved that a break was called.
> Did it avert a midair?  Really can't say, but it made me feel a whole
> lot more relieved, and I could concentrate a lot better.
> As far as midair avoidance, it's hard to say the avoidance rule
> did/didn't work if a midair didn't happen; kind of like trying to say
> how much crime was prevented by a certain law/procedure.
> Flying pattern, I sure would like to see it.
>
> Bill Glaze
> BTW: I've never seen the rule abused; maybe it has been, but I've
> never heard it spoken of.
>
> s.vannostrand at kodak.com wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not disagreeing, Croz, but here is my observation from limited
>> experience.  I've seen several midairs at contests, unfortunately.
>> Each time was such a shock that no one saw it coming.  In only one
>> case (at the now infamous Temple 2001 where 7 planes were lost in
>> one contest) were the planes even flying in the same direction.  But
>> even here, neither pilot saw the other until it was too late.
>> Others of us did, but there wasn't much we could do in the split
>> second  before.
>>     I'm curious to know is this is really beneficial in IMAC
>>
>> --Lance
>
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