ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R
ORIGINAL: cj_rumley
I don't see anything in sUAS ARC recommendations to indicate that nixing of autonomous control of MA is on Uncle's agenda.
From the Definition section in the ARC Recommendations:
Model Aircraft: A sUAS used by hobbyists and flown within visual line-of-sight under
direct control from the pilot, which can navigate the airspace, and which is manufactured or
assembled, and operated for the purposes of sport, recreation and/or competition.
Having cited that same item in post 17 above with due attribution to an AMA source, I don't contest what it says. It doesn't say "no autonomous control" of MA. If the model is within LOS (required and defined elsewhere) and the operator can take control via R/C at will, it ain't autonomous, and that word does not appear in the definition of MA.