ORIGINAL: KidEpoxy
Flying a RC Helicopter with a camera for fun is fine. Flying an RC Helicopter in a demo in order to sell product is not.
Again, this is exactly like a salesmen who can give a demo ride without a commercial pilots license. BUt he could not take the smae people in the same plane for the same flight and charge them for doing it.
If what you believe to be a clear open and shut case that is obvious that Demos Are Hobby,
can you explain whay Ilona at AMA completely didnt say that,
to the point that she recomends getting non-AMA insurance because the commercialness of demos is too much for even AMA to accept?
But it seems its not too much for you, you decree SponsoredDemo has some yet unseen specific FAA acceptance.
Again, what the AMA may or may not cover under their liability insurance has nothing to do with what the FAA will, or will not, determine is a "business purpose". You can keep coming up with increasingly more complicated and obtuse hypotheticals, but the answer will remain the same. The two have nothing to do with each other.
Should folks listen to AMA or you?
I have no official voice. When it comes to what is, and is not, legal to do once the rules are in effect is entirely up to the FAA and people will have to follow what they say. The same goes with regard to the AMA and what they determine they will, or will not, cover under their liability insurance policy.