Sport_Pilot

The box used for aerobatic's is over 1000 feet high. Even the older pattern planes fly weil above 400 feet. See and avoid is the rule. No limit to altitude except near airports.

HoundDog

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good thing balsa dust is not a carcinogen.

Rob2160

Yeah, might want to read this...

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/ic...-Wood_MSDS.pdf

Gene Chernosky

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Drones are like guns...in the hands of responsible people they can both be a lot of fun.

In the hands of irresponsible people...well...you know the story.

As usual...a few rotten apples spoil it for everyone.

HoundDog

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That irresponsibility goes for anything from Guns ,Cars, motor cycles to women.

tailskid

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Women????? What could possibly go wrong with women??? <g>

vertical grimmace

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Lol, now that is a can of worms! I think we will find a solution to this UAS, drone thing long before we solve that issue. : )

tailskid

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Just remember there are three things that will permit a man to understand a women......trouble is, no one knows what those are!

oliveDrab

Is a "drome" kinda like a "drone"?

JoeEagle

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Any comments on the AMA 's plans on requiring clubs to follow the to be released guidelines for contacting an airport if your club field is within 5 miles of an airport? And that it will be required for 2015 rechartering?

JoeEagle

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http://www.modelaviationdigital.com/...e.action?pg=14


its page 12 of the latest issue

kingwrench

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I have been in this Hobby for over forty years myself. I am a retired Marine. I am a pilot and own and maintain my own airplane. I have built and flown large scale rc aircraft. Helicopters. I build custom high end rc boats. That have been over 125mph. Turbines,nitro,gas,brushless to 15s. And now quad,hex,and octo copters I find them as the most technically challenging aspect our hobby has ever seen. We can hate it, or embrace it. I choose to embrace it for I enjoy a challenge, yes they are ugly but when you have spent many hours tweaking the settings and make a vibration free perfect video its a rewarding feeling. So lead, teach,instruct or get the hell out of the way.

binns aero

Well the way I read it, Follow new guidlines for 2015 re-charter, they will cover the correct procedures for dealing with the"special rule" that's not carved in stone yet.

lawrence b

Kingwrench, I have built 3 experimental airplanes, retired from the Air Force, and enjoy my little aspect of this hobby. I have no desire to "embrace" quad copters or the idiots that are making the news. I have done my share of leading and teaching, not all of us see those R/C things as a positive addition to this hobby.

vertical grimmace

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Hopefully you will "lead, teach, and instruct" your peers to follow the rules. While I love new technology, and embrace as much as I need to, having been in this hobby a very long time, I have never seen a new aspect of it that posed such a detrimental effect on the entire hobby if not handled properly. Fly the H@LL out of your multi rotors, but please follow the rules.

Rob2160

+1

binns aero

Got you 5by5,Ps., I hate people like you who build such outstanding aircraft like that V-173, I been looking at plans for it in my desk for the past 2 years. AWSOME!!!!!!

kingwrench

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I am A Marine I always Lead! And the faults of few affect many.

vertical grimmace

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That is good, as the problems we face are not with the technology, but the people using it.

HoundDog

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Thanks for Your service I have 4 years minus 1&1/2 hours in the USAF as a 44350Q that being said as I have said before we must if not embrace all typs of R/C or at least tolerate. Remember it a Divide and Conquer world we live in. People tend to discriminate things they don't do. i.e. 3D, Helis, Sail Planes, IMAC, Quads Even "LECTRIC" and don't for get FPV. I predict that all of this FAA crap will be just that sooner than most think, but that doesn't mean we don't have to be vigilant and ALL stick together.
Education of the Public and especially the non RC public is more impotent than ever. My winter club embraces the Intro Pilot program whole hardily to where we even supply a plane radios and instructor for 60 days, if need be. The more people U get to try RC the better off we are in the long run. I my self am starting to look into FPV. Have gotten Board (Just like I did with Full Scale) Just flying around in circles with the occasional touch and go or High speed pass. Telemetry is neat but after U find out that your different planes speeds and such it also get's boring.

binns aero

Well ok ,I'm ARMY!, 12 years to be exact. We picked up the busted stuff the Marines left behind. Lead, Follow, or Get Out Of The Way!, but remember you can't stop tech. And NO ONE can stop the hobby we love and the way we practice it.

vertical grimmace

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Getting bored is exactly why I have always gravitated toward competition.

JoeEagle

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So do those new guidelines follow the public law or the interpretation of the public law??

Thoughts of if AMA guidance is no more than 400 feet within 5 miles of an airport or 400 feet everywhere??

franklin_m

So I guess that it's impossible to redesign the competitive maneuvers so the box can be limited to 400' AGL?

JoeEagle

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I certainly think that flight 400 feet below is possible, but not for IMAC or sailplanes or turbine or pattern aircraft. yeah, same physics. same fun.. no-not close. IMO.

just curious, what altitude do you think the Pattern, IMAC, non slope soaring aero tow and finally Turbines operate at as a nominal AGL altitude?