Cause:  Pilots taking off with other pilots on the flight line ahead of them.

Fix: For safety reasons, pilots should stand close together in the correct place on the flight line, and take off from a point level with themselves on the center of the strip so that all motion, including the start of the takeoff run, takes the aircraft away from themselves.

Comment: 

If any pilot is ahead of the model as it starts it’s takeoff run, then there is risk, if something should go wrong, of the aeroplane veering off course and striking the pilot. Should this happen the pilot will be injured, possibly badly.

Veering off course like this does not have to mean that the pilot made control errors. All electronics can at some point fail causing loss of control, so this risk is best avoided by good flight line safety protocols. Please see the sketch above.

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