An accident that could have been averted.

[Joe Lachowski]

This past weekend at a contest, a pilot inadvertently took the wrong pin 
from the pin board and shot down the pilot on the other flightline. A few 
things here to ponder about when one attends a contest when this situation 
occurs.

One - Double cjheck to see that you do have the correct pin.

Two - You can't trust the pilots to take the right pin. Someone in the 
impound must directly hand the correct frequency pin to the pilot. At least 
that was resolved immediately after the incident.

Three - This one requires everyone being alert of what is going on around 
them and quickly reacting. In this situation the pilot with the wrong pin 
could have turned his radio off when people started yelling to turn off ALL 
radios in use. This pilots plane was in the hands of the caller at that 
time. The pilot who lost his plane made  a valiant effort to save his 
plane(on an FM Rx). The amount of time from interference to crashing in the 
trees was more than enough time to shut ALL radios off. There was sufficient 
time for that pilot to save his plane had the other pilot reacted quickly.

Enough said.

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