Originally Posted by
JohnShe
Good point Frank. I suspect that they haven't asked for a flight restriction yet. But, I bet they will soon enough. very likely the final UAS regulations will specifically pose restrictions and require specific approvals of any kind of UAS flyover.
Fellows, you can think-on-it all you want. Disney World has the $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$ and then some. $$$$$4 are the favorite fruits for a congress person.
Whatever the most $$$$$$$ wants then the $$$$$$$ gets. There will be adequate Drouge, quadcopter stuff to keep the U.S. mfgers. busy but IMO restrictions will be fitted for the entertainment world and manufacturing/Importers to continue. Toy airplane folks will most likely get some serious restrictions which will IMO at this time not bother the business people that like to survey, watch for whatever, P&M and such. Toy aircraft will most likely receive little if any of the "blessings".
If they are allowed, I do hope they are restrictive in some manner that keeps non-adults from playing with them.
For those that think turbines can kick out all such things as a Drone, well you have some learning to set you straight. BTDT. Some of the smaller engines will shatter if most anything hits a compressor of an engine. I was an instructor pilot in the USAF T-38 for 2 years. That engine way back then was easy to have a problem. Making a go-around (pre-solo student) from a landing approach at a practice facility, both engines failed. I took control, got one restarted and made it to home base. The flame-outS were because of driving through some low rain-showers which I violated the rules to get a couple landings in. Bad Me. The left engine had lost turbine blades.
Later in the Airline, 727, I lost a whole inside of #1 engine on a climb-out from Denver's Stapelton airport. Everything in the engine hull left through the cowling.
I lost a DC-8 engine at about 12000 MSL ft when some kind of bird hit it. For you newbies to any kind of aviation, models, whatever,
never take anything for granted in the aviation world.
Many Many Aviators in these forums.
LISTEN TO THEM. Non-survivors, desk jobbers, bureaucrats, crooks, etc., will never agree that there is a rather dangerous world out there.