ORIGINAL: on_your_six
No, not an officer... I just help out as much as I can at the club. I donate, I help instruct, I help build field facilities, I help newbies build projects.
I am a realist. I am a GA private, land pilot... I know how the FAA works and the system they are comfortable with. Set of Rules, Tests, Practical Knowledge, Demonstrated Airsmanhip Skills. Do you really think that you are going to change the FAA?
No matter what the AMA keeps spoon feeding you, the FAA will have their way in the end.
If you don't like my opinion, find someone else you agree with.
ORIGINAL: littlecrankshaf
ORIGINAL: on_your_six
I do not think we have a ''Right'' to fly unmanned aircraft, I think we should have a license to fly ALL unmanned aircraft including that 40sized model. Maybe not a model designed to fly indoors. The license to fly an RC aircraft could be as simple as taking a test to acknowledge what you can and cannot do. Just what harm is that? Yet I hear people screaming about loosing their rights. For larger aircraft (size to be determined) the knowledge test should increase. As the capability of the aircraft flown increases so should the knowledge demonstrated to fly it.
Just wondering, are you an officer for an AMA club?
I agree the FAA will do what it wants and i hope at least the ama stays clear of sticking up for the drone people. If drone people want to have their own org they had better hurry up and do it before the faa shuts them down before they even get started.