FAA intentionaly hyping up Drone News. AMA needs to go to WAR!
08-22-2014, 08:08 AM
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Section 336 clearly recognizes the model aviation products industry with this statement: "any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft". The FAA acknowledeges that statement in their interpretation but them contradicts itself with the statement that "Receiving money for demonstrating aerobatics with a model aircraft." is comercial and not recrational. It becomes contradictory when the demonstration is done for marketing purposes. I think that we should write comments that are rational and polite, but not whiny or insulting, that point out this discrepancy and the chilling effect it would have on the industry.
08-22-2014, 08:10 AM
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Section 336 clearly recognizes the model aviation products industry with this statement: "any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft". The FAA acknowledeges that statement in their interpretation but them contradicts itself with the statement that "Receiving money for demonstrating aerobatics with a model aircraft." is comercial and not recrational. It becomes contradictory when the demonstration is done for marketing purposes. I think that we should write comments that are rational and polite, but not whiny or insulting, that point out this discrepancy and the chilling effect it would have on the industry.
08-22-2014, 08:31 AM
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Section 336 clearly recognizes the model aviation products industry with this statement: "any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft". The FAA acknowledeges that statement in their interpretation but them contradicts itself with the statement that "Receiving money for demonstrating aerobatics with a model aircraft." is comercial and not recrational. It becomes contradictory when the demonstration is done for marketing purposes. I think that we should write comments that are rational and polite, but not whiny or insulting, that point out this discrepancy and the chilling effect it would have on the industry.
It would take an immense policing effort by FAA to enforce every stretch of this provision in the law that has been imagined by some participants in any discussion of part 336. Where does FAA get the resources to do this, and to what end?
The reason 'non-commercial' is a condition in the statute at all is because it was the one attribute of recreational/hobby model aircraft (the only of aircraft that were not regulated) that separated them from classes of UA that were seen as needing regulation by FAA. AMA, Congress, all seem(ed) to be in agreement on this. I am, and I want it to stay that way. This issue is no more than a decomposing red herring thrown out by AMA marketeers because they don't want to cop to what they really wanted and didn't get.
Developers will continue to develop and distributors will carry on with their marketing. Even if there was the remotest chance that FAA would go after them, they'll continue do it easily under the radar. And I'll still sell my overstock of toy airplanes items at local swap meets and tell the Fantastic FAA Forces 'catch me if you can.' And if somebody loses in their bluff that the videos sold to the TV station of a local emergency were taken when he just happened to be flying his model airplane overhead..........screw him.
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08-22-2014, 10:52 AM
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How long did it take AMA to decide that model airplane flying instruction for hire is not a commercial activity verboten by their rules?
It would take an immense policing effort by FAA to enforce every stretch of this provision in the law that has been imagined by some participants in any discussion of part 336. Where does FAA get the resources to do this, and to what end?
The reason 'non-commercial' is a condition in the statute at all is because it was the one attribute of recreational/hobby model aircraft (the only of aircraft that were not regulated) that separated them from classes of UA that were seen as needing regulation by FAA. AMA, Congress, all seem(ed) to be in agreement on this. I am, and I want it to stay that way. This issue is no more than a decomposing red herring thrown out by AMA marketeers because they don't want to cop to what they really wanted and didn't get.
Developers will continue to develop and distributors will carry on with their marketing. Even if there was the remotest chance that FAA would go after them, they'll continue do it easily under the radar. And I'll still sell my overstock of toy airplanes items at local swap meets and tell the Fantastic FAA Forces 'catch me if you can.' And if somebody loses in their bluff that the videos sold to the TV station of a local emergency were taken when he just happened to be flying his model airplane overhead..........screw him.
cj
It would take an immense policing effort by FAA to enforce every stretch of this provision in the law that has been imagined by some participants in any discussion of part 336. Where does FAA get the resources to do this, and to what end?
The reason 'non-commercial' is a condition in the statute at all is because it was the one attribute of recreational/hobby model aircraft (the only of aircraft that were not regulated) that separated them from classes of UA that were seen as needing regulation by FAA. AMA, Congress, all seem(ed) to be in agreement on this. I am, and I want it to stay that way. This issue is no more than a decomposing red herring thrown out by AMA marketeers because they don't want to cop to what they really wanted and didn't get.
Developers will continue to develop and distributors will carry on with their marketing. Even if there was the remotest chance that FAA would go after them, they'll continue do it easily under the radar. And I'll still sell my overstock of toy airplanes items at local swap meets and tell the Fantastic FAA Forces 'catch me if you can.' And if somebody loses in their bluff that the videos sold to the TV station of a local emergency were taken when he just happened to be flying his model airplane overhead..........screw him.
cj
08-22-2014, 11:41 AM
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Is their some code of conduct amongst miscreants that compels them to document their misdeeds on UTube?
08-22-2014, 02:51 PM
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the fines could pay off our national debt.
