I arrived overhead a private strip recently,only to find someone playing football with their dog in the middle of the strip. Having circled several times(annoying the locals) I decided to do a low pass to get them to move.
This had the effect of getting them to look up at me and wave!(but not move!)
After some considerable time,longer than it took fly there,they moved and I landed.
They then came up to look at the aircraft with the dogs off the lead before I had shut down.
This is not the first time this has happenedto me.
Taking the recent tragic events with the giro into account it could have been worse,as indeed it could have been had I been low on fuel.
Bearing in mind the people should not be on the runway,was I wrong to buzz them? (500ft rule) and if I HAD to land (for whatever reason) would that have made any difference (500ft rule)?
