[NSRCA-discussion] Shot down at sanctioned event.

[John Pavlick]

Scott,
 That's ridiculous. If I were the CD I wouldn't have let anyone fly unless they were in the contest. I certainly wouldn't have allowed 2 sets of frequency pins. Maybe this was difficult to do because of the way the field was set up? Still, at every contest that I ever went to that had a "contest frequency board" the CD made sure that ALL the pins were in and then closed the field frequency board before starting the contest and putting the contest board into action. I would talk to the CD about this. The guy who shot you down had the pin. Technically he did nothing wrong. The only problem was that there were 2 pins. This is a bad thing for everyone but it looks like your plane is in pretty bad shape so someone should try to help you out. What plane was this?

John Pavlick
http://www.idseng.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott Smith 
  To: 'NSRCA Mailing List' 
  Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 3:25 PM
  Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Shot down at sanctioned event.


  Normally I would accept the fact that this hobby has risks and that bad things sometimes happen.  However, under the circumstances, I was wondering what you guys think.

   

  I entered an AMA sanctioned electric fun fly today.  On my second flight, I took off, turned downwind and realized I was in serious trouble.  The plane remained airborne for about a minute before going straight in.  The entire time I yelled "SHUT OFF 56!"  After the impact, I looked down the field to where two people were trying to get a glow trainer running.  I asked 56? And they replied "yes, we have the pin."

   

  Here's the problem.there were two sets of pins.  One set for the event, and the club's every-day pins.  I had the event pin, he had the other one.  Apparently he showed up not knowing an event was in progress.  He asked the CD if he could go to the end of the field and run up his engine.  As I understand it, the CD allowed this without explaining the frequency control in effect.

   

  What's the club's liability, if any?  What's the non-participant's liability, if any?  Will either one be covered by AMA's property damage coverage?  

  Or am I at the mercy of their good moral character?

   



   

  I should have gone to Muncie.

   

  Scott

   



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