Same thing happened at Mac Hodges field a few years ago. I believe it was Friday warm-ups, and this guy in a Bonanza came out of nowhere with a low pass down the runway. <br><br>Unfortunately, if you're flying at an uncontrolled field and nobody is talking on the radio all you have is "see and avoid" . . . <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Bob Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">bob@toprudder.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><div>I watched the video last night, but now the video has been "removed by the user". I wonder if everyone is trying to keep this quiet now. The video will probably end up being evidence in an investigation.</div>
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<div>Someone is at fault. Hard to tell who. From watching the video, and from the description below, I doubt the model flyer was at fault since it appeared that he had permission, and the runway was supposed to be shut down - I think he had every right to assume it was safe for him to fly. When told to fly away, he did. </div>
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<div>Very lucky that no one was hurt.</div>
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<div>As model pilots, what can we learn from this? Always have a spotter. Not someone standing there saying "wow, bring it down lower" but someone with their head on a swivel watching out for traffic.</div>
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<div>I was flying a model at a private grass strip years ago and had just taken off. A guy drove up, got into his Pitts biplane and took off - he knew I was there. I thought it would be no problem, I just turned around and flew away from the runway. But, after he took off, he made a big circle and buzzed the field. Luckily, I had someone telling me what he was doing. I had to fly my model almost down into the tree tops to get out of his way. If anything had happened, I would have felt like it would have been the other guy's fault, but I'm sure the media would have reported it in such a way that model airplanes would have gotten a bad rap, which is what will probably happen now.</div>
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<div>Bob R.</div>
<div> <br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/18/10, Bill's Email <i><<a href="mailto:wemodels@cox.net" target="_blank">wemodels@cox.net</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bill's Email <<a href="mailto:wemodels@cox.net" target="_blank">wemodels@cox.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Full scale bipe vs RC plane<br>
To: "General pattern discussion" <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br>Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 9:46 AM<br><br>
<div>mike mueller wrote:<br>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3GHqMObjcM&feature=player_embedded#" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3GHqMObjcM&feature=player_embedded#</a>!<br>> I've seen this but I can't figure out why they were allowing RC planes to fly on an active runway. This seems like total kaos. Mike<br>
Here is what I know about it:<br><br>The location was Brighton Van-Aire airport (CO12) north of Denver.<br>This is an uncontrolled field. There are no requirements for radios or any communications.<br>There are no ATC personnel or facilities involved in operations at this airport.<br>
It happened during a charity event being held at the privately owned airpark (people have hangars at their homes).<br>The biplane pilot lives there. He reportedly landed and parked his plane in his hangar after the incident.<br>
The RC plane was flying a planned demo.<br>The fellow with the radio was the
"airboss" for the event.<br>He has no official powers or authority.<br>The biplane required no clearance or permission to land or make the low pass.<br>A NOTAM was not filed for the event.<br>The biplane was damaged. (not sure to what extent)<br>
Nobody was injured.<br>Incident reports have been filed with the FAA and NTSB.<br><br>This is gleaned from a number of sources, including several threads on RCU, Flying Giants, and the AMA forum.<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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