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Happy Days:
Woooooooooo,..................Garry, this is some topic!

Thanks for taking your time and ingenuity in clearing up some of these ambigunities regarding questions of liability and insurance cover.

Thank You. :clap:

Ron:
Yes thanks Garry :clap:

That's good news about the registration letters.
I was imagining 3 inch high letters on the wings or something. :oops:
Sounds like we can write inside the radio/battery compartment with a felt-tip pen, or something of the sort.
15mm high is quite small really.

Thanks again. :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

garrykeogh:
OK Guys... now for the cherry-on-top 8)

This is the absolute situation from the MACI Officer that negotiates our policy for us...

1.  Gliding (slope soaring) from non permanent sites is covered as an item on our group policy th the same levels of public liability cover. See MACI booklet re private sites.

2.  At present the only competency tests we have are for powered flight only, however I hope to set in place similar tests as the BMFA  requirements for Silent Flight so that competency tests are available for all.

3.  MACI members are covered to fly in other European countries, See extract below  from our Policy

Overseas Personal Liability
The Insurer will provide indemnity to the Insured and if the Insured so requests any director partner officer
committee member coach leader or instructor voluntary helper of the Insured or Employee against liability
incurred in a personal capacity while temporarily outside Great Britain Northern Ireland the Channel Islands or
the Isle of Man in connection with the BusinessThe indemnity will not apply
A) to liability arising out of the ownership or occupation of land or buildings
B) where indemnity is provided by any other insurance

For the record...  Our officers in MACI are volunteers who are very approachable individuals.  Anybody who takes this workload on for our common good is typically from that category of person that is happy to answer our questions  8)

All of us as paid up members of MACI are free to show up at the MACI Council meetings as delegates or at the AGM as voting members.  In fact, we can not open our mouths to complain about any aspect of our hobby unless we are prepared to  bring these complaints to our voice... MACI Council.  I will put my colours on the mast and state that I hate beaurocracy just for the sake of it.  The council are thankfully a bunch of guys who are pretty focused on making the hobby work for us, continually trying to make the situation better e.t.c.  They being human can't know exactly whats happening on every hill and every club in every discipline without feedback.  I will stop banging on the drum now, but will remind you all to keep in touch with MACI, we are better off with them than without... hell, some of us could be mildly involved from time to time to help steer things the way we would like :?:

Hope we all feel cozy with this knowledge  :D

Garry

Fred:
Hi Garry,

Thanks a million for all these informations !!  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:
Now, we know !  :clap:  :clap:  :D

Spinifex:
It's amazing how incidents can grow hair and cloud the facts over the years

Garrykeogh wrote:

"You can blame the guy (novice and not a member of any club or MACI) who managed to take off a large powered airplane in the Phoenix park fitted with a co-pilot stabilisation system. He couldn't as a novice over power the gain setting on the co-pilot and watched the plane go out of sight, all the while declining offers of help. The plane disappeared, he collapsed his tranny aerial and disappeared too. His plane landed itself successuflly on a taxi way in dublin airport, I was told while Mo Mowlan was approaching the airport during the height of the peace negotiations.:

THE FACTS

1) the flier was not a novice-  he had 17 years flying experience
2) He was or had been a MACI member and had his MACI number on the aircraft.
3) all onboard equipment including servo makes were detailed in the investigation report and he did not have a Co-Pilot - it was not even around in 1996 when this incident happened.

There was a full investigation of the incident  and  concluded that receiver battery depletion was the cause of the fly-away. The model had earlier that day successfully completed an hour of flying time.

The full Incident report is at
http://www.aaiu.ie/AAIUviewitem.asp?id=3606&lang=ENG&loc=1280


John O'Sullivan

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