Bigroger
70cc twin V2
I hear you on the anti 3D crowd.
My wife and I were just discussing this at lunch today and too be honest it is clearly discrimination in its most ugly of forms. Not because of your skin colour, not because of your sex, sexual orientation or your cultural background, it just plain and simply because of how you choose to fly in your hobby.
The safety thing frustrates the hell out of me as well, seems the safety only applies when the club directors choose how and when to apply it.
My recent down turn came after raising the issue of guys crashing into the pits area with glow powered training planes that had gone dead stick.
Now our pits is a good 70 meters behind the flight line, and as I said, I cannot understand any good reason as too why it was classed as a non-issue that an experienced pilot can endanger the other members by not being able to steer a dead stick motor plane safely to the ground and away from people.
Within a few weeks my club had several near miss accidents that included one older fellow hand starting a DA50 with 23x8 Xoar prop without any kind of restraint. Motor caught plane leapt forward and the gentleman received 8 stitches and a trip to the emergency room for treatment.
And you know, not one single investigation or formal inquiry into how these things happened or how to look at preventing them in the future.
My wife and I were just discussing this at lunch today and too be honest it is clearly discrimination in its most ugly of forms. Not because of your skin colour, not because of your sex, sexual orientation or your cultural background, it just plain and simply because of how you choose to fly in your hobby.
The safety thing frustrates the hell out of me as well, seems the safety only applies when the club directors choose how and when to apply it.
My recent down turn came after raising the issue of guys crashing into the pits area with glow powered training planes that had gone dead stick.
Now our pits is a good 70 meters behind the flight line, and as I said, I cannot understand any good reason as too why it was classed as a non-issue that an experienced pilot can endanger the other members by not being able to steer a dead stick motor plane safely to the ground and away from people.
Within a few weeks my club had several near miss accidents that included one older fellow hand starting a DA50 with 23x8 Xoar prop without any kind of restraint. Motor caught plane leapt forward and the gentleman received 8 stitches and a trip to the emergency room for treatment.
And you know, not one single investigation or formal inquiry into how these things happened or how to look at preventing them in the future.
