> I agree, There was one time that a Cesna was flying around our field watching my SB-XC in the air, after about 10 min. of his persistent fly around's of the field ( aprox 300+ acer's )<
It can get pretty dicey at times. In the 60's the old Arc's field situated about seven miles from Pittsburgh International had the airliners passing directly overhead at about 500 feet which always made me nervous and a little disorientated to boot! I found it hard not to watch the airliners. The field had been provided by the state as part of a "noise park" program and was situated at the top of a hill with the land around it strip-mined away. Sorta like a plateau. You could see them coming from a long ways off but it was still unnerving to me. The worst case I have ever seen occurred a few years ago, (70's), at a W.W.I contest at a full size field in NY. A Piper Cherokee began circling around at about 100 foot altitude while numerous large models were in the air doing a mass fly by. He simply came in over the trees and joined the left hand pattern with the models! The field layout with trees surrounding the field left no options for the models. The boys at the field were simulating flack by shooting off bird popper loads from a 12 gauge at the time and from appearances that is what finally caused him to shear off and go away. Three times at the same two day jamboree Cassia's tried to land on the closed runway. Big X's at each end and a runway full of people notwithstanding. These boy's had flaps down and were well into the approach at around 100 feet before they took the wave off and went away. One of them went around and tried again. Probably something about the big X's and the guy waving the big red flag he didn't understand, I suppose. Dennis in NH RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
