Re: rules about hang-up and midair

From: <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 30 Mar 2018 13:51:20 +0000

Interestingly, my model was the *second* case of a hang up on the same already-hung-up plane. Similar situation, two different models.

However, the in the first instance the plane that hung-up-on-the-hang-up did not have an earlier midair, and it was still granted a reflight

My understanding is that the jury ruled in the first instance that the first model was a hang-up, and the second model was a midair

Regarding a flier intervening to free their model within 10 seconds (an instance of which was captured on video), that exact thing came up during a US team selection contest. It was ruled that a flier cannot intervene to free the model within the 10 seconds

In light of the difficult purchased-hub situation we have just endured, since the "FAI" did not address the pilot intervening to free their model at the WC, does that now mean the technique is implicitly condoned? (I think it doesn't, but you can see what I'm getting at)

I suggest two things that could help:

1) An official record of jury rulings, for future reference. This may already exist, but I'm not aware of it

2) A clarification that an absence of a ruling does equate to implicitly condoning, possibly with the addition that a ruling is not retroactive, or that there is a statute of limitations (e.g. if there is a ruling that a flier can't intervene to free a hangup, that doesn't negate the flight in the video)
Received on Fri Mar 30 2018 - 13:51:25 CEST