This would be a difficult thing to deal with as a flightline director. All those people are not uninvolved people, they're all there by virtue of interest. But.... that could have been very much worse. Imagine someone's kid losing an eye or worse for example. No one in the hobby wants to have over-regulation at what is a fun event, but events like that could disappear through negligent flying(which ultimately is what that was). We've all made mistakes, and will continue to do so, myself included. However any incident involving models into spectators needs proper, close examination and lessons learnt!
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That was some epic flying but good god that couldn’t gone very south if he was just a bit high off the ground.
This would be a difficult thing to deal with as a flightline director.
All those people are not uninvolved people, they're all there by virtue of interest. But.... that could have been very much worse. Imagine someone's kid losing an eye or worse for example.
No one in the hobby wants to have over-regulation at what is a fun event, but events like that could disappear through negligent flying(which ultimately is what that was).
We've all made mistakes, and will continue to do so, myself included. However any incident involving models into spectators needs proper, close examination and lessons learnt!