Just an FYI,
Full scale (powered) aircraft have relatively low altitude limits (with
respect to the altitudes our gliders can and often fly at). For those of
you who may not know, those altitude restrictions are as follows:
In the airport traffic pattern (normally out to as far as 5 miles from the
airport):
Piston aircraft: 800' AGL
Turbine powered: 1500' AGL
Cruise flight:
Over populated areas: 1500' AGL minimum
Over non or sparsely populated areas: 500' AGL vertically and horizontally
from any object or person on the surface.
As you can see, it is easy for our models to be a collision hazard for low
flying aircraft, especially near an airport and especially in remote areas
(Visalia, for example)!
Keith McLellan
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