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From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
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Dale Rogers wrote:

> Russell Duffy wrote:
>
>> Glad to hear that you made another safe trip, but sorry to hear of 
>> your friend in the RV-6.   Accidents like that just shouldn't happen...
>
>
> With all due respect, unless it was the result of an
> unpredicatable mechanical failure it wasn't an
> "accident".
>
> It was a "stupid" - possibly partly on the part of
> OSH Ground, but certainly on the part of the Avenger
> pilot.  There's just no good excuse for not knowing
> that the way ahead is clear, when on the ground, of
> all places.
>
Preach it, Dale.

Busiest airport in the world.
Can't see what is ahead.
Mixture of extreme types of airplanes...ultralights to P-51...all over 
the place.

Why the $$$$ is any aircraft having to do S turns to see what is ahead?  
Any plane without full forward visibility should either A) be towed to 
the run-up area, B) have walkers at each wing tip, or C) not be allowed 
to move.  It's called positive control, and if there aren't enough 
resources to maintain positive control then the event needs to be scaled 
back until they are put in place.  This isn't a local grass strip 
fly-in,  pilot's shouldn't expect to move around as if it were, and the 
organizer's shouldn't expect that a cavalier, laissez faire attitude 
won't get people killed.  I for one will do my part to insure that it 
does not grow any larger until the right mindset is instilled in the 
organizers.

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