Acknowledging loss of freedom in the May Model Aviation magazine
05-04-2017, 01:10 PM
#26
As an avid builder/modeler for over 5 decades I am disgusted with the requirement to register with the FAA. I therefore refuse to register.
I have given away all of my scratch built planes with engines and servos (over 20), and have focused on glow powered models small enough to evade the requirement. I have also taken up golf and am on the look out for a different hobby not regulated by the Federal Government.
I have given away all of my scratch built planes with engines and servos (over 20), and have focused on glow powered models small enough to evade the requirement. I have also taken up golf and am on the look out for a different hobby not regulated by the Federal Government.
05-04-2017, 02:00 PM
#27
I think the point has been missed.
Make no mistake control over us is desired, and has occured. And a fee has been established, you say it's no big deal? well how long do you think it will take for the fee to be increased? there is a method to most madness, and it ain't in your favor.
Big brother has you by the B____s. and you haven't even noticed!
Make no mistake control over us is desired, and has occured. And a fee has been established, you say it's no big deal? well how long do you think it will take for the fee to be increased? there is a method to most madness, and it ain't in your favor.
Big brother has you by the B____s. and you haven't even noticed!
As an avid builder/modeler for over 5 decades I am disgusted with the requirement to register with the FAA. I therefore refuse to register.
I have given away all of my scratch built planes with engines and servos (over 20), and have focused on glow powered models small enough to evade the requirement. I have also taken up golf and am on the look out for a different hobby not regulated by the Federal Government.
I have given away all of my scratch built planes with engines and servos (over 20), and have focused on glow powered models small enough to evade the requirement. I have also taken up golf and am on the look out for a different hobby not regulated by the Federal Government.
05-04-2017, 05:54 PM
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...... I believe this is an action just a bit too drastic for the situation as it presently stands . The government already has you in enough databases if you've got an automobile driver's license or even just a social security number that what's $5 every three years and being in yet another database matter VS giving up a hobby that you obviously enjoyed ?
05-05-2017, 04:44 AM
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05-05-2017, 08:18 AM
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05-05-2017, 08:22 AM
#31
While I do agree 100% with Donny here that there is far too much government encroachment on our hobby , and like the proverbial "tip of the iceberg" there is much more coming than initially meets the eye ........
...... I believe this is an action just a bit too drastic for the situation as it presently stands . The government already has you in enough databases if you've got an automobile driver's license or even just a social security number that what's $5 every three years and being in yet another database matter VS giving up a hobby that you obviously enjoyed ?
...... I believe this is an action just a bit too drastic for the situation as it presently stands . The government already has you in enough databases if you've got an automobile driver's license or even just a social security number that what's $5 every three years and being in yet another database matter VS giving up a hobby that you obviously enjoyed ?
05-05-2017, 08:25 AM
#32
If you don't register the government will never know how many model aircraft flyer's are out there. It's killing the hobby but AMA doesn't seem to understand that many are quitting the hobby or just quitting the AMA over this.
05-05-2017, 08:27 AM
#33
Hi Sport ,
05-10-2017, 04:39 AM
#34
I think the point has been missed.
Make no mistake control over us is desired, and has occured. And a fee has been established, you say it's no big deal? well how long do you think it will take for the fee to be increased? there is a method to most madness, and it ain't in your favor.
Big brother has you by the B____s. and you haven't even noticed!
Make no mistake control over us is desired, and has occured. And a fee has been established, you say it's no big deal? well how long do you think it will take for the fee to be increased? there is a method to most madness, and it ain't in your favor.
Big brother has you by the B____s. and you haven't even noticed!
05-10-2017, 04:39 AM
#35
I think the point has been missed.
Make no mistake control over us is desired, and has occured. And a fee has been established, you say it's no big deal? well how long do you think it will take for the fee to be increased? there is a method to most madness, and it ain't in your favor.
Big brother has you by the B____s. and you haven't even noticed!
Make no mistake control over us is desired, and has occured. And a fee has been established, you say it's no big deal? well how long do you think it will take for the fee to be increased? there is a method to most madness, and it ain't in your favor.
Big brother has you by the B____s. and you haven't even noticed!
05-10-2017, 04:45 AM
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05-10-2017, 05:40 AM
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05-10-2017, 06:17 AM
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Understood. With that said we have no idea what the feds have in store for the hobby side and I hope very little. The 5 bucks was a reaction to pressure from Congress to do something about the "issues". We have no idea what the future holds.
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05-23-2017, 06:11 AM
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05-25-2017, 06:57 AM
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I think that the registration and fee have been ruled illegal by a DC Court, since model aviation is expressly excluded in the FAA act. But I am older than the hills and my memory is a bit blotchy.
