Naw.....that's just a bunch of hot air.The EPA is proposing regulations requiring that prop wash be captured and reclaimed.
How would that help avoid the area unless you take off from the taxi way before you get there? You still have to wait for them to move to take the runway.
Just taxi around them on the grass.
But there's also the radio... "Cessna in the runup area, if you're going to be much longer would you mind moving up so I can get by?"
That does seem like an unusual run-up configuration but I can see some brilliance in it. It does depend on some awareness to pull on through to the back spots.
Seems to me that
a) talking with the flight school's chief about itb) perhaps make up some simple "how-to" posters and stick them up at various places around the FBO, at the fuel pump, etc...as an FYI to folksmight get the message across...if not to everyone, at least a bulk of them.
These would be good suggestions, except that this is KOMN. We don't have an FBO. We have a flight training school that is listed as an FBO and sells (overpriced) gas, but if you are not a student, you are ignored.Put a sign in the FBO offering free coffee and doughnuts to students, pilots, and CFIs that are smart enough to do it correctly. Once you have them trained then quit with the free stuff ...
Another good suggestion, but one that doesn't work here, unless your plane can taxi on a steep slope without sliding into the swales.I am not the sharpest tool in the shed but I have gone through the grass to get around another plane and have had planes go around me in the grass, as well as used the radio.
No, not all of it. Just the CO2 in it....The EPA is proposing regulations requiring that prop wash be captured and reclaimed.
Also called situational awareness. There is a stark deficit of that in society now, and I think it is related to the sense of entitlement in people raised as spoiled kids.Most people are not deliberately inconsiderate. It's usually more a matter of being unaware of their impact on others.
SA = situational awareness. Yes, it's too easy to become a CFI. Proof? Lack of knowledge about some really basic stuff like carb ice and angle of attack, accelerated stalls, the relationship between AoA and airspeed, and other such subjects.Always saw the same thing at FDK runway 3 and you're right that we seem to have a lot of CFI's who don't understand SA starts before you leave the chocks.
They also do runups downwind in ways that make doing a runup into the wind more challenging, and even occasionally pointing their prop wash towards parked planes. It's really dumb.
Live in the land of puppy mills and you get tired of having to wait for dumb stuff.Sounds like the OP has a case of getthereitis. Relax, have a beer, wait it out. Time to spare, go by air. And all that stuff.
I'm sure that you usually know what you are talking about, but in this case it's not my getthereits at play. It's my disdain for idiots. As I said, I often see them from my hangar and it annoys me even if I am not going anywhere. It's the same feeling of annoyance I feel when I'm at the gym at there are a half dozen people sitting on the weight benches and machines staring at their phones but not doing any reps.Sounds like the OP has a case of getthereitis. Relax, have a beer, wait it out. Time to spare, go by air. And all that stuff.
Live in the land of puppy mills and you get tired of having to wait for dumb stuff.