ORIGINAL: Prop_Washer2
Actually, I can buy any RC Airplane I want and go fly it, (i.e I can purchase/build a turbine airplane, take it out to a deserted hiway in the desert, and fly the snot out of it), just not at an AMA sanctioned location...
No doubt, I think that this is a grey area of legislation. there is not a simple answer to this.
What I witnessed all this years, while visiting many different places in wich waivers aren´t required is that pilot proeficiency level and crash rates are about the same as the U.S. presuming that people have some r/c flying experience.
Seems that cost, complexity and skill required just to break ground with a toy like ours is a waiver by itself.
Enrique