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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Most contests I've attended the
freg is listed on the flight order cards and I always check their also for
conflicts and track down my conflicts. When humans are involved no system is
100% foolproof except scanners are best insurance I've seen.
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<A title=mups1953@yahoo.com href="mailto:mups1953@yahoo.com">mike mueller</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:42
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: An accident that could have
been averted.</DIV>
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<DIV> Joe that brings up a point I would like to see made into an SOP for
all contests. During the pilots breifing before the contest it would help if
the CD would announce all the frequency conflicts and have those people talk
to each other. Many times you don't even know if there's someone else using
your frequency. It's just common sense. Mike<BR><BR><B><I>Joe Lachowski
<jlachow@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">This
past weekend at a contest, a pilot inadvertently took the wrong pin <BR>from
the pin board and shot down the pilot on the other flightline. A few
<BR>things here to ponder about when one attends a contest when this
situation <BR>occurs.<BR><BR>One - Double cjheck to see that you do have the
correct pin.<BR><BR>Two - You can't trust the pilots to take the right pin.
Someone in the <BR>impound must directly hand the correct frequency pin to
the pilot. At least <BR>that was resolved immediately after the
incident.<BR><BR>Three - This one requires everyone being alert of what is
going on around <BR>them and quickly reacting. In this situation the pilot
with the wrong pin <BR>could have turned his radio off when people started
yelling to turn off ALL <BR>radios in use. This pilots plane was in the
hands of the caller at that <BR>time. The pilot who lost his plane made a
valiant effort to save his <BR>plane(on an FM Rx). The amount of time from
interference to crashing in the <BR>trees was more than enough time to shut
ALL radios off. There was sufficient <BR>time for that pilot to save his
plane had the other pilot reacted quickly.<BR><BR>Enough
said.<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>