cgmg
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2003
- Messages
- 1,149
- Location
- El Paso, IL.
- Aircraft
- Empty hangar right now, have owned and flown Air Command & RAF
- Total Flight Time
- 375
I share my hangar with two other fixed wings. The guy who has been there the longest has over 50% of the floor space. The new guy and I share the less-than-other half. The new guy angles his plane in so I have about 8 feet of width along the north wall for my machine.
When I back my machine in, my rear blade hangs over the oldest guy's floor space. He's shorter than me, so I tie my blades so the rear blade should be above his head height. Most times my blade tip is within four feet of the north wall. I angle my machine slightly so as to keep the blade as close to the wall as possible, yet leave room for the new guy to get his machine out without touching my gyro.
We all agreed that we would not handle each other's machine unless it was absolutely necessary.
I've noticed the last couple of times that the knot I normally tie was different, but thought that maybe it had come loose, and someone had retied it for me.
Last night, I come up to the hangar, walk over to the doors, and start pulling my door open. As I'm backing up along the door track with the door, I hit my front blade with my shoulder blade. It hurt like hell, as it was the trailing edge. Looking at my blades, the front one is tied down so tight, it's tight against the teeter stops, and against my rotor brake!
I am now thoroughly pissed, as now I am positive someone re-adjusted my blades. Later that night, the new guy shows up, and I ask him about my blades. Dennis tells me that Tom, the other guy had re-tied them earlier that day, when Dennis and he were there.
When I get home that night, I call Tom. He admits that he has re-tied my blades several times, as he keeps walking into them. I don't really understand how that can be happening, as he is shorter than I am. When I ask why he didn't contact me, his excuse was that we were never at the hangar together(he has my phone number). I explained that he had tied them much tighter than I felt was necessary, and was really uncomfortable with his actions. I explained that those are my flight surfaces and controls he had been messing with. Tom did apologize for his actions eventually.
I explained to Tom that I was trying to be a good hangar neighbor, by accomodating both neighbors at my inconvenience. But I also reiterated that I felt it was out of line for him to handle my aircraft.
After a few more minutes of discussion, I told Tom I would now hang something on the blade to make it visible to anyone walking around, even if their head was down. I now have two very bright old neckties hanging down from the last 2 feet of the blades. If you now walk into my blades, you have to be blind, and over 6 1/2 feet tall(about the height they are normally at).
My question to the rest of you: Do I have right to be pissed about this guy's actions, or was I in the wrong? Note: If I had ever touched Tom's machine like this, there would have been World War 3 in our hangar. He gets upset with the other guy because he doesn't properly store his tools/etc., to Tom's liking on the shelves. And we each have our own sets of shelving.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks
When I back my machine in, my rear blade hangs over the oldest guy's floor space. He's shorter than me, so I tie my blades so the rear blade should be above his head height. Most times my blade tip is within four feet of the north wall. I angle my machine slightly so as to keep the blade as close to the wall as possible, yet leave room for the new guy to get his machine out without touching my gyro.
We all agreed that we would not handle each other's machine unless it was absolutely necessary.
I've noticed the last couple of times that the knot I normally tie was different, but thought that maybe it had come loose, and someone had retied it for me.
Last night, I come up to the hangar, walk over to the doors, and start pulling my door open. As I'm backing up along the door track with the door, I hit my front blade with my shoulder blade. It hurt like hell, as it was the trailing edge. Looking at my blades, the front one is tied down so tight, it's tight against the teeter stops, and against my rotor brake!
I am now thoroughly pissed, as now I am positive someone re-adjusted my blades. Later that night, the new guy shows up, and I ask him about my blades. Dennis tells me that Tom, the other guy had re-tied them earlier that day, when Dennis and he were there.
When I get home that night, I call Tom. He admits that he has re-tied my blades several times, as he keeps walking into them. I don't really understand how that can be happening, as he is shorter than I am. When I ask why he didn't contact me, his excuse was that we were never at the hangar together(he has my phone number). I explained that he had tied them much tighter than I felt was necessary, and was really uncomfortable with his actions. I explained that those are my flight surfaces and controls he had been messing with. Tom did apologize for his actions eventually.
I explained to Tom that I was trying to be a good hangar neighbor, by accomodating both neighbors at my inconvenience. But I also reiterated that I felt it was out of line for him to handle my aircraft.
After a few more minutes of discussion, I told Tom I would now hang something on the blade to make it visible to anyone walking around, even if their head was down. I now have two very bright old neckties hanging down from the last 2 feet of the blades. If you now walk into my blades, you have to be blind, and over 6 1/2 feet tall(about the height they are normally at).
My question to the rest of you: Do I have right to be pissed about this guy's actions, or was I in the wrong? Note: If I had ever touched Tom's machine like this, there would have been World War 3 in our hangar. He gets upset with the other guy because he doesn't properly store his tools/etc., to Tom's liking on the shelves. And we each have our own sets of shelving.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks