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Old 04-27-2012, 10:01 PM
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Default RE: The real reason for the FAA hassle

My position (flame suit on) is it is the best interest of the AMA to distance itself even more from autonomous flight and FPV.
interesting
You cite a Privacy problem regarding Civil & Public users,
and rather than saying hobbyists need to distance themselves from that Privacy issue,
or that hobbyists need to distance themselves from from Cicil & Public use,
you instead pick on an unrelated situation regarding how models are controlled
rather than the Wrong things those models do and the Wrong folks doing it.

So its just fine by your approach
if the non-hobbyist privacy violators used only LOS to cause a privacy ruckus
... as long as those civil/public privacy violators dont cause their problems by FPV/Autonomous
then their problems (and collateral damage we hobbyists suffer) is ... ok?

I disagree.

We are hobbyists-
not Public big-brother spy drones so the government can watch innocent populous,
and not the Civil paparazzi / IDTheft / Dataminers invading peoples privacy,
we are hobbyists that PLAY with toy airplanes for recreation by law

The problem with a PeepingTom using a rc helicopter to look in windows with a vid recorder
is NOT whether he is doing it LOS or FPV,
but that he is a peeping tom looking in windows.... LOS dont make it ok