I've also discovered that rotary pilots views aren't welcome in this forum if it opposes a FW pilots' view!
In my experience, anyone whose view oposes the majority view will need to work quite hard to get their point across on this forum, regardless of what they fly. Fortunately, most of the regulars are articulate enough to do so.
In this particular case, the majority view is that violence will not solve the problem. I challenge anyone, fixed wing or rotary, to give me a good counter-argument to that.
There is a secondary matter of whether the fixed-wing pilot was even doing anything wrong, and since very few of us were actually there, we're not in a position to comment. Certainly from Vfrpilotpb's description of the events, what occured was both dangerous and illegal. I don't know whether there's another side to the story, but whether there is or not, violence is still not the answer.
I've been on both ends of flying c0ck-ups involving other pilots - although, fortunately, nothing life-threatening. Where it's been possible, a friendly chat in the bar after everything's been tied down has always resolved it (usually by one party apologising). When I don't know who the other pilot is, the friendly chat in the bar isn't possible, and it's best to just put it down to experience - although I would have no hesitation filing an MOR or Airprox if the situation warranted it.
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