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Old 07-20-2014, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by AlW
Look the issue here is endangering the National Air Space. What this means is that models flown by line of sight don't pose an issue because they simply can't be flown high enough to do so. FPV on the other hand can be flown much higher and do pose a safety issue to civil /commercial aviation. The FAA will win here and ban FPV and Congress will agree.
People have been flying models over a thousand feet in the air way before FPV was around. OTOH most of the FPV videos I have seen show them at lower levels
like a couple hundred of feet or so