Poor display of Airmanship

t-bird · Postby **t-bird** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:52 pm

We had breakfast at an airfield on Saturday morning.
Two trikes landed and were parked next to the restaurant with people having breakfast.
When these two guys decided to move on they started the engines with the props facing us having breakfast. After warmup full throttle blowing our food full of grass and dust.
It would have taken them less than a minute to move the trikes 90 degrees away from the people having breakfast.
Airmanship is not only applicable in the air but also on the ground.

Alkemac · Postby **Alkemac** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:31 am

If it will help our cause, publish the registration numbers...

Postby **Morph** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:02 am

Let's not do the name and shame option. If you have the registration numbers then we can find out who they are, and give them a talking to

John Young · Postby **John Young** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:30 am

Morph wrote:Let's not do the name and shame option. If you have the registration numbers then we can find out who they are, and give them a talking to

Hi,

Agreed - there are enough Cyber Kangaroo Courts out there already.

Regards
John ZU-sEXY

RV4ker (RIP) · Postby **RV4ker (RIP)** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:40 am

In past we have just jumped on the radio there and then and usually they are apologetic. I have seen it a couple times and from experienced aviators. Problem is often the added pressure of a "crowd" and they are so hell bent on not making oops in public and then forget "outside" effects....

t-bird · Postby **t-bird** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:12 am

Don’t want to name and shame them.

Just take care when you are starting up that your tail is not facing the public.

Grumpy · Postby **Grumpy** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:13 pm

t-bird wrote:Don’t want to name and shame them.

Just take care when you are starting up that your tail is not facing the public.

T-Bird, You are so right. I don't believe guys try and blow the public away. Sometimes they just don't think. It's happened to me too.

JJJ · Postby **JJJ** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:21 pm

A guy in a two seater Jabbi once started his Jabbi with my plane right behind him. All I did was walked up to his plane, pushed the tail down and turn it 90 degrees. He and his wife got such a groot skrik and nearly jumped out of their Jabbi.

Not the right thing to do I suppose but I can promise you he will never do it again.
JJJ

Blue Max · Postby **Blue Max** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:08 pm

Yes it is not very often that somebody is having breakfast behind your aircraft.
I can only immagine that they were not doing it on purpose.
Thanks for the entry, to me it is a fresh reminder to be wide awake..

tsotsi · Postby **tsotsi** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:12 am

Should be plain common sense, basic manners and awareness. This is why we normally stop to have breakfast

Alkemac · Postby **Alkemac** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:54 am

in what way does this differ from an incident ?

clearly we have people exposed to more than an acceptable level danger and risk ?

t-bird · Postby **t-bird** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:02 am

No additional risk!!
You expose yourself by having breakfast next to a runway!

Tumbleweed · Postby **Tumbleweed** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:20 am

Simple mistake and only happens once. Like blasting from a standing take-off on a dust strip with all your mates lined up behind you.