Mid Air Question

[Joe Lachowski]

Heck, hopefully I had my quota of mid-airs for the year last week. There was 
two of us flying small electrics at the ballfield on base during lunch. 
Wouldn't ya know it, we both managed to occupy the same space at the same 
time<g>.  I have had about a half a dozen mid-airs in my roughly 30 years of 
flying. Luckily, none of them have occured at a contest and only one of the 
ones that I did have  were with one of my pattern planes and that was on an 
Easter Sunday. Obviously, I do not fly on Easter Sunday anymore. The man 
above has spoken<g>.

>From: "Wayne Galligan" <wgalligan at goodsonacura.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: Re: Mid Air Question
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:50:58 -0600
>
>I don't know what the fuss is about 2 flight lines.   When flying at the
>field on a regular day there can be 4-5  airplanes in the air at the same
>time increasing the likelihood of a mid-air due to more equipment in the
>same space.  It has happened to me while practicing.   Friends of mine have
>had mid airs with sport planes that where so far out of the box you 
>couldn't
>imagine how it could happen.  Two of them even mid aired when they where 
>the
>only two guys at the field just practicing.  One guy got his airplane
>totaled and it was under a table next to a chair under the pavilion and 
>some
>how an errant take off happened to find its way to his plane and totaled it
>out and these where the only two airplanes at the field.  The point is it
>can happen at any time at the field practicing or at a contest.  Unless you
>only want to fly a couple of flights in a contest then there is not much
>else one can do.  Accept the risks, fly cautiously and if in doubt fly away
>from a situation if you feel you are in jeopardy of damaging yours or
>someone else's airplane.   One botched maneuver is worth more then anyone's
>airplane.   I have some times waited a minute or two till the other flight
>line was in the air and started in his pattern till I took off to spread 
>the
>sequence out.  But I am not sure it really help it just made me feel a
>little better.
>
>Now if I could get all those botched maneuvers back when there was clean
>air...
>
>Wayne Galligan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Pavlick" <jpavlick at idseng.com>
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:33 PM
>Subject: RE: Mid Air Question
>
>
> > Scary stuff. Since this was my first year flying in competition I 
>learned
>a
> > lot. The first time I attended a contest that had two flight lines I was 
>a
> > little bit surprised. At first I thought: "Man, that's crazy!" I told my
> > caller to keep an eye on the "dangerous" side of the box and I figured
>that
> > since I was flying Sportsman, I'd take a 0 on a turnaround rather than
>take
> > out someone else's plane. Nothing happened at that contest except one
> > near-miss (I wasn't involved) so I figured it was just a necessary Evil.
>It
> > takes a while to fly all the sequences / classes even at a small contest
>so
> > I understand why we do it. I didn't realize the amount of midairs that
> > happen however. It is kind of scary. I don't have a real good backup
>plane,
> > and even if I did I wouldn't want to bring home my main ship in a bag
>after
> > flying it into someone else (cost of damage x2). I hope we can come up
>with
> > something to reduce the risk.
> >
> > John Pavlick
> > http://www.idseng.com
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
> > > [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Terry Terrenoire
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:37 PM
> > > To: discussion at nsrca.org
> > > Cc: discussion at nsrca.org
> > > Subject: Re: Mid Air Question
> > >
> > >
> > > AMEN! Ron. You said exactly what I was going to. Evidently, CDs think
> > > alike!
> > >
> > > Terry T.
> > >
> >
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