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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: Flying with Bad Manners
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.000849.9621@rtsg.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Jul19.221943.128@lrc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:08:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul19.221943.128@lrc.edu> neal@lrc.edu writes:
- |In a recent post, Scott mentions spins over the heads of spectators,
- |buzzing dogs, etc. Let me be the first to absoutly condem this kind
- |of flying under any circumstances.
- |
- |Folks, we have enough trouble keeping flying sites on private land,
- |much less in public areas. The last thing we need is a spectator
- |injured by carelessness - scratch that - sheer stupidity. Try a
- |stunt like that with a County Commisioner in the crowd and see how
- |long it takes to shut down every flying site in the county,
- |power or otherwise.
-
- I agree it may be dangerous, but I hesitated to say anything, simply
- because the poster was from Down Under. I suggest that perhaps some
- of our attitudes about model airplane safety come from our extremely
- safety paranoid society, and its extreme litiginousness. (Wow, a five
- dollar word! :-)
-
- I have chased birds with a model airplane. The safety-crats say that
- is dangerous. I do not agree. (although I do consider it to be a
- cruel act, to the bird; file it under adolescent idiocy.) Flying
- over spectators didn't used to be a capitol offense. Really. That
- is a fairly recent addition to the safety code. (Fairly recent, meaning
- less than 25 years old.) It doesn't mean it's not dangerous, it simply
- means that it was not recognized as so.
-
- Is there a flying-site shortage in Australia, like there is here? What
- *is* the safety consciousness, there?
-
- Scott, do you have any input to this discussion?
-
- Dave Svoboda, Ignorant Yank, Palatine, IL
-