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ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot

everyone having to buy and install and maintain a 200 dollar a pop speed limiter on evvery turbine aircraft, reguardless of attainable

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max speed is your idea of nobody going to be seriously affected by this issue????

I sometimes cannot afford a $200 model! Yet I think that dollar figure will not seriously affect the jet modeler. Not with engines starting at $2000 and finished planes costing $10,000 sometimes more than 20 grand! 200 seems rather insignificant. IMO if required and more than one brande is approved or certified then the price will come down.

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ORIGINAL: Silversurfer

I think you guys are all missing the point. This hobby is just one big airplane, fast jet, high profile accident away from having the FAA, NTSB, or some other federal agency stepping in and making it real difficult for anyone to have fun. we need to fine a way to reel everything in just a little bit to prevent that.

The "mines bigger" or "mines faster" or "mine cost more" attitudes out there has reached a point where it's all become insane. 50% scale models are not models, they're unmanned aerial vehicles. A lot of people out there aren't modeling for fun anymore, they're massaging their egos and basking in their vanity.

200mph+ models, even when flown properly, are deadly in the event of a radio glitch. How far will that jet travel in 3 to 5 seconds while no longer in control? Will there be a fire or explosion when it hits? How much damage could occur should that 50% scale, prop driven plane do should it come to rest in the laps of the spectators of a public event? How much kinetic energy is released when a 55 pound aircraft, travelling 150mph, hits something?

No one intends for anything to go wrong, but things do, and will. We all need to be thinking about the "what if" factor a lot more than we are now. Rules and regulations limiting what we can do have become mandatory, due in large part to the tremendous technical advances in this hobby over the last decade.

If we don't limit ourselves, I guarantee you that our government will.

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ORIGINAL: Jim Branaum

In fact, I don't even have to hide my name, except from those checkbook modelers who buy more than they can fly.

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ORIGINAL: FC26

i sent a letter to Mr Brown and to our district rep (XI) which by the way he has put me in his spam list
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If you flew or knew anything about turbine powered aircraft, then you would know that this problem has been addressed. How many turbine fires have you witnessed as of lately.