[NSRCA-discussion] RC Pilot killed

[mike mueller]

If your flying as close as they do it's logical that the risk is high.  What's the difference how it happened. Things break, pilots error, radio's fail the risk is too high.
 This behavior is not exclusive to helis. 3d planes have similar risks.
 AMA has to address close proximity dangerous activity or we will get shut down someday. 


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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 12:44 PM CDT SilentAV8R wrote:

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>On 9/7/13 10:33 AM, Keith Hoard wrote:
>> The cause was flying too damn close.
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>Or a ball link broke
>Or a linkage failed
>Or a servo stripped
>Or a horn broke
>Or a radio hold
>Or a Gyro problem
>Or a battery failed
>Or a T/R gear stripped
>Or a blade bearing gave out
>Or a........
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>You get the idea. Just a little too easy to say he was flying to close. The guy in Tucson who hit himself with his own plane after losing it in the sun was not flying to close, and yet he was killed by his own plane.
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>Bill in SOCAL