<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">I have a question to all that have a city or county field that is managed by a club. Have you ever had to remove a troublemaker from your club and not allow them to fly at the site? Our club is in a city park and the site is leased to the club but we have allowed nonmembers to purchase field permits and fly without being a club member. We are going to change the rules this coming year and there are some people that are not going to be allowed in the club. I would like to know if anyone has experienced this problem and how it went.<br>
Thanks Claude Weimer<br>
Omaha NE</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Claude</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Almost.....We got lucky and the guy disappeared. We had a member from Taiwan who could barely speak english. He owned a 1/3 gas OVER powered Extra. He could not land without nearly killing someone, he could not stay within 1000 ft of the runway (flew past our boundaries), he could not seem to keep from flying over the pits, he was 106db BUT that never stopped him from ATTEMPTING to hover...Thats when it got real scarey! Hover and drift over the pits. Once he had and engine failure during a hover, luckily he was out past the runway and totalled his plane.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Relief quickly spread throughout the club that somehow we all escaped death. Then the next day he showed up with a bigger plane!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Countless reprimanding got us countless "So sorry". As President I had made up my mind to ground him if he ever hovered over the pits again. Luckily for us he dissapeared. I would have been over stepping my authority, but I would also had the backing of the membership. We had no hard and fast rules at the time to deal with such a problem. Meanwhile Lance VanNostrand and I devised a plan and got it placed into the bylaws. In summary, there are two divisions.......anyone with any plane, and anyone with a "large" place (by engine cc).</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">A visitor or new member must pass a basic flying test to enable him to fly as a guest (can he stay within boundaries and can he land the plane). Then for a large plane, a visitor must pass a basic flying test ONLY by one of our large plane members same requirements, but added....is the plane structurally sound. Any one exhibiting the problem we had before can now be grounded by any club member, with the executive council as judge and jury.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Add to this a manditory sound check at any time for any plane.<br>
This took a year to word and get passed....Now at least we have some method of stopping dangerous flyersand people who consistantly overfly the 1000 ft boundary, risking our field. Unfortunately if we have an old fashioned icehole in the club that flys okay we must just deal with it.<br>
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Gray Fowler<br>
Principal Chemical Engineer<br>
Composites Engineering</font>