Neil Hammond Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Ok, own up - who was it? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6145239.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Never been to Oz but words fail me, a very silly model flyer let's just say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mullins Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Why would you fly near low flying aircraft I ask. Sure if they thought of the amount of deaths they could be responsible for they would realise how foolish they had been! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Clarke 3 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 thats just the thing ben idiots dont think thats why they are idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi g Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 No excuse for that. find them and prosecute them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby159 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Words fail, We cannot use cameras at our field due to security reasons Makes you realise why the BMFA want a buddy when anyone is FPV flying, I know this person was not, but if he were would he have see that plane coming, would he have turned his head to the noise, and tried to fly around to see it with possible even worse results, or am I off on a wrong track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemma Jane Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 I think Nobby the wrong track. The point here is that this/these idiot(s) went and did this on purpose. It's nothing to do with FPV or BMFA or anything else. Simply it is someone who has bought a model and gone to a field directly under the flight path of landing aircraft to pull off this stunt, in the process endangering an aircraft and the souls onboard. Hang them is all I can say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby159 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Gemma, I concur with your Hang Em High The FPV BMFA thought came as I was reading a back issue about FPV at the same time as I read this thread. Nobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Yup, it looks like he just bolted a flycam on to the model (judging by the white balance) which gives him less of an excuse, not that an excuse is likely to cut it. Edited By David Ashby - RCME moderator on 25/04/2009 21:53:45 Edited By David Ashby - RCME moderator on 25/04/2009 22:16:35 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Duvall Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 At least the model plane got trashed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dee Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 It seems to me that this sort of stupid stunt is becoming a sign of the times. Dont forget that this reflects not just on Australia but on all modellers world wide. These people think its a joke to place others at risk just so they can put a sensational video on youtube. Beginners do not like to be told that there are circumstances that require a knowledge of safety to be thought of. I was told a couple of weeks ago of a model crashing into a housing estate recently. The bit that annoyed me was those telling me thought it was hysterical. No one had thought of the consequences of this action. Killed or injured someone, Damaged property, hit motor vehicles. The list is endless. What you could bet would happen would be that the local council would not allow model flying anywhere in the county. Lets start to become a lot more responsible for our actions and be men enough, that when we see fellow flyers acting this way that we have the nerve to approach them and let them know, in no mean terms that what they are doing is cosidered to be unsafe. We need our flying sites but we do not need these irresponsible people to take this away from all of us. Edited By Al Dee on 29/04/2009 12:10:51 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHN WATERS Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 G'day I live just south of Perth in west australia the video is a load of bull , a bit like the edge that lost a wing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 The lost wing panel on the Edge is a definate known fake, involving a model and the full size, and some clever cropping and editing. AFAIK this clip above is genuine. Do you have proof that it is not John ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHN WATERS Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 talking to a guy in the civil aviation safety authority and he just laughed about it take a look at the size of the aircraft, it is a long way away from the model ,ok the model may not have been 5 kilometers away from the a/c but it sure was a long way if that model had hit or near missed the jet there would be very little left of it if anything and yet it was filmed on the ground all points a side I think it was very foolish flying a model so close to a international airport in the first place ,in australia you must be 3 nautical miles away from a aerodrome to fly model aircraft and a bit of common sence to go with it, been flying full size commercially most of my life belive it or not you do come across some strange things at times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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