Hey guys it was a tech question not a legal or moral question. As a amateur extra class license holder for 20 years I can tell you that the lower the frequency the longer the range and the more efficient the transmitter. I fly IMAC and really large aircraft and we get out there but my data logger on my 33 percent edge rarely show any frame losses... Radios are really good for what they are designed to do. Nothing is worse than the helpless feeling of still having control but unable to read the attitude until you hit the ground... Which get easier to lose as the years go by..

I have 9000 hrs of flight time full scale and believe me models are very small and way below us.. It looks like you are much higher than you actually are when standing on the ground. Flying over our local field in a Cessna it looks like flies buzzing around down there... Way down there! and I am at 1000 to 1500 AGL..

As a practical thing I remember when rc planes flying off was a common occurrence and somebody lost one almost every weekend.. Stomping thru tall grass looking for them. They were much larger and not made of foam back then..... And we never killed anybody... Nor did the paranoid government give a damn... Maybe that's why companies like the Dragon Link folks sell so much stuff.. And nobody really dies. An electric, styrofoam airplane can't get very far in the 10 minutes the batteries last. Couldn't hit anything if you tried more than likely and this discussion is pure fear... Actually the only accidents I have ever seen are some idiots who can't fly getting over his head trying to hit the runway or what ever and ending up in the parking lot.. It usually takes human intervention to really screw up and hit something of value when flying.. I remember when this hobby was fun, creative, innovative and this country free..