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08-27-2013, 05:34 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Camas, WA
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Dan,
This is a really good idea. I'm going to use it.
Thanks,
Dennis
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Originally Posted by DanH
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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08-27-2013, 07:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Mojave
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Originally Posted by DanH
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...
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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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08-27-2013, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Gilbert, AZ
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You can't fix stupid.
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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IAC National Judge
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08-27-2013, 07:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: N. Little Rock, Arkansas
Posts: 217
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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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08-27-2013, 08:34 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Delta, CO/Atlin, BC
Posts: 2,391
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Originally Posted by marv1121
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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Better yet, "crime scene" or "police line, do not cross" would probably do well.
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08-27-2013, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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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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1996 RV-6 "Tweety" C-FRBP (formerly N196RV)
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08-27-2013, 08:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Camas, WA
Posts: 481
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LOL!
I even have a reflective vest and some high black socks to complete the look. :-)
DM
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Originally Posted by Toobuilder
...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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08-28-2013, 04:00 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
Posts: 9,500
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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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08-28-2013, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 370
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Originally Posted by Snowflake
When they ask what the Police Line is for, tell them "the last person who touched the plane..."
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Or the next one.
Gotta be prepared, right?
- mark
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08-28-2013, 08:56 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
Posts: 2,247
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"I shoot every other person who touches my plane. The last one just walked away."
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Dale
Omaha, NE
RV-12 # 222 N980KM "Screamin' Canary" (bought flying)
Fisher Celebrity (under construction)
Previous RV-7 project (sold)
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