ORIGINAL: MustangFan
If we use Radio Control as a hobby ... we fly under AMA rules.
If it's used as a business ... get your own insurance and go to the FAA.
If an individual is using GPS to guide a model ... that is not this hobby.
If you are flying above 10,000 ft ... will a transmitter designed to control at 1 mile work or be a good control source?
I think DB is a little ahead of himself on this. Our hobby does not fall under unmanned aircraft as used in business or war.
If a person wants to start a business ... then they need to get the proper insurance and waivers.
If they are terrorist ... they abide by no laws.
I agree with these statements whole heartedly.
Why should anybody be allowed to start any kind of business without proper insurance or licencing?
Especially one as dangerous as unmanned vehicles.
If a model engine hit the prop of a full size aircraft, you want to make bets as to what would happen to that prop, and the occupants on board.
No matter how careful you guys think you are, something will eventually happen, then you won't be covered, and I'm sure if any lawsuits were to follow, you could be in risk of losing everything. Then the hobby will suffer for it. You know what the media would do to a story like that.
When you guys do this kind of thing, you are placing the liability soley in your own hands.