Fri Jun 22, 2018 1:34 pm
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Maxthelion wrote:Crash one wrote:You claim you are not asking special privileges yet you seem to think the other pilot should find it easier to see you rather than you see him.
If you are spending a lot of time looking at your wing or your position in your box, you are not keeping a lookout for traffic, why should you be surprised that the other guy didn't see you? He has as much right not to see you as you have to not see him.
I'm flummoxed by this. How can the Cessna driver in Dave's video have anything other than a terrible lookout, as obviously he wasn't head down in an Ipad because to suggest he was is patently offensive. In the video I would describe Dave as 'somewhat busy', and because of this it's excusable for him not to have spotted the Cessna sooner. Just what is it that Cessna drivers are doing all day that excuses them from see and avoid?
I'm going to bite.
In the video the Cessna appears black underneath, he may have been turning right showing the underside of his left wing. So he may have seen Dave.
2 the distance didn't look to me as dangerously close, he may have been inside the "box" but unless it was notamed he has a right to be there.
3 As said Cessnas are the most diabolical for lookout.
4 And that is what Cessna drivers do all day, frantically try to see out past all the door pillars, high cowling, struts etc.
5 I've been a lot closer than that to other aircraft flying gliders on a crowded ridge.
6 The three or five mile separation rule applies to passenger jets and others, not to every tin pot spam can, otherwise we would never get anywhere.
My opinion is that this video is making a mountain out of a molehill, and to slag off Cessna drivers in this fashion is a disgraceful insult, to put it mildly enough not to get banned.
If you want to do aerobatics in class G without a notam do it over the sea, out of everyone's way, unless of course you want to impress Aunty Joan.
And bear in mind when you are busy that keeping a lookout is your first priority, not the accuracy of your Cuban eight.
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