Strike two...

Mentioned a few times, taking advantage of Daylight Savings, I sometimes go to the model airfield to catch a few flights before dusk. Because it's 'dinner time' the fields are usually 1 or 2 people, where on a weekend, you can see 20 pilots waiting to fly.

The county park is huge with 3 separate fields: air strip for planes, grassy area for helicopters and a smaller area for drones or control-line airplanes. The car and dune buggy track is a few hundred yards away.

Airplanes usually need a runway (to takeoff and land) and fly in long circuits, they can stay in one area. Helicopters can fly with less restriction usually in a boxed area.
There are no written club rules that say a helicopter cannot fly at the airplane field, but in the interest of safety, all pilots must notify the others when they are going up, flight pattern, encroaching on the space of another pilot and shout out for any landing, especially emergency.

I showed up one afternoon and as I carried my flight box out to the field one guy approached me asking if I had AMA. The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) is the voice of anyone wanting to fly models. They have strict safety guidelines and offer liability insurance for members who fly at registered parks/fields and sanctioned events. AMA is a requirement and I put my equipment on the table to take out my card along with the club membership card and asked if he wanted to see it up close. He declined.

Back to my car and I carried 2 helicopters heading the the table where he tells me I cannot fly there. My statement was "That's not true" and he followed me back and forth to my car where I picked up more gear and another helicopter as he continues to tell me it's against club rules for a helicopter to fly at the airplane field. I stated "Are you saying I cannot fly here?" He 'blubbed' a few words and say's in the the rules posted at the gate.
So... I stand at the sign, read it out-loud. Nope, no helicopters mentioned.

2 guys with small planes in the sky and when I was ready to go up. One was on the far right side and the other finished. I advised both I'd be flying a helicopter. Both said no problem. Walking to the opposite side of the strip, probably 100 yards away from the other pilot.

This didn't stop the man who was now arguing about club rules. He threatened to call the police and park ranger. I invited him to do so. I placed my model on the edge of the runway and as I stepped back to the safety zone he's still 'barking at me' for not following the rules. Just then the guy from the opposite end of the field crash lands near me and his plane tumbles end over end off the runway. It's the pilot's responsibility to shout out a warning, especially since he flew until the battery died and had no power to control the landing. He didn't. By then I was being blamed for some safety violation and that I could have been decapitated by that 'crashed plane' for stepping on the runway.

I stated his constant harassment to me was a safety distraction in violation to the rules.

So now I want him, the pilot who crashed and me to meet with the park ranger as I insist on filing a formal complaint. Asking his name he replied with profanity. That's enough, I set my phone to record the rest of the event, started packing my things. As I got a half mile away from the park, I see the ranger turning in. Too late, the party is over!

On our usually Saturday flying session, I told my story, to another club member who was the vice-president for 3 years and he calls the current president who comes right over to hear my story. I played the video and he's recognized. Trouble maker at best this guy has an attitude that gets him ejected from club meetings. A previous episode he was formally placed on a 90 day restriction... not allowed to fly. Three violations the member is banned from the club for good. His harassment and use of profanity to another member got him strike two.