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Old 09-22-2014, 01:56 PM
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I can see both sides of this.

I mean, if you've been given the privilege to fly privately, be it with a sport, recreational, or private licence, you should know well enough if you are violating airspace or posing a threat to full-scale aviation. It shows a clear disregard for full scale aviation safety, and like anything in that regard, can warrant an investigation and penalties, regardless if it involves a model aircraft or not.

We don't have a "God Given Right" to fly models, nor to fly full scale, and if we are showing that we don't care about its safety, why should we be allowed that privilege?

I doubt that this will be a huge deal, though - there's so much rhetoric going around now that until the FAA actually uses this tactic, I'd consider it nothing more than sensationalism...

Still, it's something that I doubt many of us would have considered on their own, so bringing it up with this community was a good choice.