ORIGINAL: NJRCFLYER2

A few of us Pattern and IMAC types did some informal testing one day with an onboard unit to record max altitude. Some testing was done by flying the sequence, and other testing was done to see if what we each thought was 400 feet was about right. We tried this with 2M Pattern airplanes and with a 40% Sukhoi. Suffice it to say that there is no way you can fly aerobatic sequences as we know them today without busting through 400 feet AGL. It was also very revealing that what we all thought was 400 feet, just flying straight and level, was wrong. Very wrong. Anyone who thinks that they have a good handle on on how high they are flying at all times, even with ordinary sport flying, is just fooling themselves. A 400 foot celiing is simply unrealistic, and is also unenforceable with RC flying as we know it today.