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Old 08-27-2013, 05:34 PM
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Dan,
This is a really good idea. I'm going to use it.
Thanks,

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If it helps....

At our big YE event and airport open house everyone working as ground crew has an old-fashioned police/sports referee whistle. They're encouraged to use it anytime they need to get a visitor's attention, mostly clearing taxiways and guarding aircraft movements. However, it also includes people getting a little too friendly with the parked airplanes. The nice thing about the whistle is you don't have to scold anyone verbally; just toot and motion with a hand from a distance. Everyone turns to look, so the offender gets a little dose of public peer pressure and the onlookers get the lesson...don't touch.
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Old 08-27-2013, 07:13 PM
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The nice thing about the whistle is you don't have to scold anyone verbally; just toot and motion with a hand from a distance. Everyone turns to look...
...at the dork with the whistle!


Everyone is different, but I'd rather take the direct confrontation approach than being "that guy" with the whistle.
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Old 08-27-2013, 07:32 PM
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Long, long ago I brought a F-16 to a military air show for static display. I was talking to some folks and turned just in time to catch an "adult" male with a cigarette in his mouth trying to pry the cap off the external wing tank. I made sure he was ejected from the air show grounds.
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Old 08-27-2013, 07:43 PM
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I have a friend in my past EAA chapter who had something that seemed to work. He took some home made posts made out of pvc pipe and put them around his airplane and put "caution" tape completely around the plane using the posts. It is some trouble but it worked.
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Old 08-27-2013, 08:34 PM
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I have a friend in my past EAA chapter who had something that seemed to work. He took some home made posts made out of pvc pipe and put them around his airplane and put "caution" tape completely around the plane using the posts. It is some trouble but it worked.
Better yet, "crime scene" or "police line, do not cross" would probably do well.
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Old 08-27-2013, 08:44 PM
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When they ask what the Police Line is for, tell them "the last person who touched the plane..."
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Old 08-27-2013, 08:45 PM
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LOL!
I even have a reflective vest and some high black socks to complete the look. :-)


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...at the dork with the whistle!


Everyone is different, but I'd rather take the direct confrontation approach than being "that guy" with the whistle.
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Old 08-28-2013, 04:00 AM
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We hung a very official "Seized by the IRS" sign on a buddy's airplane at SERFI some years ago. People were walking around that Swift like it had a disease.
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Old 08-28-2013, 08:35 AM
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When they ask what the Police Line is for, tell them "the last person who touched the plane..."
Or the next one.

Gotta be prepared, right?

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Old 08-28-2013, 08:56 AM
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"I shoot every other person who touches my plane. The last one just walked away."
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