RE: FAA ceiling on R/C
Even "feel good" legislation can be a problem. Sooner or later a gung-ho FAA Administrator will
come along and start enforcing all regs, good ones and stupid ones. If anyone has trouble
seeing a model at 400 feet then I feel sorry for them. The runaway at our flying field is 850 feet
long, and even with bad eyesight I have no problem seeing a plane sitting at the end of the
runaway, even a 40 size. Our field is about 2.5 miles from a full scale airport, that in the
summertime might have 1 or 2 planes fly out of there a day, almost never even get close to our
field. If they did pass and enforce this "feel good" legislation, it would have a useless impact on
our field! This kind of legislation is like the 1968 Gun Control Act it doesn't accomplish squat! Instead
of targeting the violators they go after everyone. Typical of Government agency that can't use
common sense!