Get lots of rich old stunt fliers to move to your town. Nothing works around here. I think we're about to lose our #1 field, RiverView Park in Kent, WA. It's just a cowpasture next to the freeway, with the Green River on the West. They're going to make it into a "Corporate Park"...a place for company picnics, by permit, apparently. Plus a boat launch and some other fluff. I'm betting that they put trees all over it, so we can't fly there. Can't they just wait until we're all dead and buried?
I do have an idea that I'd like to try, tho. I'd like to setup teams of club members...three person teams, maybe 6 or 8 teams. Each team with a cell phone. Each team with some models, with decent mufflers (OS .46LA's with stock muffs, or close). Each team with plenty of orange safety cones. On a Saturday AM, I'd have a team go and fly at as many of the city parks as I could arrange, all arriving well before 8am and ready to fly at 8. We'd have our man Dave Gardner in the area, with his cell phone booted up and his dB meter empowered. Howard would still be fussing with his GPS, trying to find the park he is assigned to.
The idea is to hit the parks before anybody else occupies them. If they don't have a permit for a scheduled activity, we got rights. They whine, we call the police. I'd rotate this around the various Seattle suburbs, plus Seattle proper. In a small town, the police phones should be tied up for the whole day. Bring a lunch.
The city of Kent, WA has two "Skateboard Parks". All sorts of stuff to zoom up and crash off of. With a climbing wall at the new one. They put one kid in a wheelchair (for life) a few years ago at their older skateboard park...how's
that insurance work? And our model planes are dangerous? Renton, where I live, had a public swimming pool in Liberty Park (of all places), that leaked and needed to be replaced. They made it into a Skateboard Park, so the kids have a good place to go buy drugs. True! Sad, but true. I hope you get some good answers, because we need help. AMA
has not been of any help to us at all. Oh, they did say that one of our sites was too close to another RC field.
Steve
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