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...dont bother with the East Ravendale club
A few weeks ago, there was a planker who was ****in about with an engine for about 30 minutes, no one else was flying, so I decided to have a go with my heli for five minutes, and the second he heared my starter motor, he started his plane and took it out, next thing after about five minutes another one took off, and then another, they kept on flying in a relay, landing and refueling and taking off again, always keeping at least one plane up.
It was obvious what they where up to, as they had been commenting on how it was too windy to fly, but the second that a heli is about to go up, they forget the wind.
Then, on top of that the same joker, this weekend goes and takes off straight towards the person I have been teaching to fly, while he was hovering, now he could have taken off any direction, the wind was less than 1 mph, so a downwind take-off is no problem, especially since it was a U-can-do-3D, then later on he was landing towards the pits, me and the person who I was teaching, but everyone else was landing in the opposite direction, he ended up nearly hitting the pair of us, mike would never have seen it, as he was buisy flying his plane at the time, I told him we had a plane heading towards us, it was so close I had to duck, and when he veered away, instead of making a right hand turn, he made a left directly towards the pits.
Another joker also got out a model that looked like it was three crashed models glued together, which hadn't been flown for two years, didn't bother range checking or doing a pre-flight, just took off, and then realised he had no rudder, and since it didn't have ailerons, he had no roll control, so it just circled and circled and eventually crash landed.
Obviously we are making a complaint, and probably moving to another club.
A few weeks ago, there was a planker who was ****in about with an engine for about 30 minutes, no one else was flying, so I decided to have a go with my heli for five minutes, and the second he heared my starter motor, he started his plane and took it out, next thing after about five minutes another one took off, and then another, they kept on flying in a relay, landing and refueling and taking off again, always keeping at least one plane up.
It was obvious what they where up to, as they had been commenting on how it was too windy to fly, but the second that a heli is about to go up, they forget the wind.
Then, on top of that the same joker, this weekend goes and takes off straight towards the person I have been teaching to fly, while he was hovering, now he could have taken off any direction, the wind was less than 1 mph, so a downwind take-off is no problem, especially since it was a U-can-do-3D, then later on he was landing towards the pits, me and the person who I was teaching, but everyone else was landing in the opposite direction, he ended up nearly hitting the pair of us, mike would never have seen it, as he was buisy flying his plane at the time, I told him we had a plane heading towards us, it was so close I had to duck, and when he veered away, instead of making a right hand turn, he made a left directly towards the pits.
Another joker also got out a model that looked like it was three crashed models glued together, which hadn't been flown for two years, didn't bother range checking or doing a pre-flight, just took off, and then realised he had no rudder, and since it didn't have ailerons, he had no roll control, so it just circled and circled and eventually crash landed.
Obviously we are making a complaint, and probably moving to another club.
I bet he won't get too close...
there's a lot to be said for flying by yourself in a field.
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