<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><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><wemodels@cox.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Bill's Email <wemodels@cox.net><BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Full scale bipe vs RC plane<BR>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 9:46 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>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>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc11.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" ymailto="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" target=_blank>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>