avoidance rule

[ronlock]

Have we thought through the sun in the box implications of 
off setting both flight lines 30 degrees?

Ron Lockhart
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: george kennie 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:13 PM
  Subject: Re: avoidance rule


  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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