Originally Posted by YellowAircraft

LOL,

Some people will decry the death of freedom at the drop a hat whenever ANY kind of legislation is mentioned. It helps none of us to oversimplify this stuff down to the lowest common bumper sticker slogan. Dan, I'm not aware of anyone killing anyone with a credit card, so silly false equivalencies are good for a chuckle, but hardly applicable. Many of us are FS pilots and DO NOT want some numbskull [who just came back from the swap meet with his quadcopter] creating a lethal hazard for us when we're taking our wife and kids for a nice flight on Sunday. Just last weekend, my friend and I had to chase off some guy with a drone from our club field. He was totally unaware of the club rules regarding takeoffs from the pit, which is what alerted us that maybe he wasn't a member. When we approached him, his defense was, "I'm not flying. I'm just testing it out." I basically said that it left the ground and that was my definition of flying. I was diplomatic and 'nice' and gave him the application, but the fact is that our field is literally 100 yards from the border fence and is under CONSTANT surveillance from CBP. We don't need some eBay pilot ruining things for our club anymore than we need some schmuck flying an RC vehicle into a FS plane and killing people. If that takes regulation to give teeth to enforcement, then I'll deal with it with the attitude that the life it saves might be mine--or my family's while they're flying with me.

Getting tired of all the people out there moaning and crying about government intrusion and loss of freedom when what they really mean is a minor inconvenience that probably won't ever even effect them personally. Take a look around the world and get an eyeful of people who REALLY have something to complain about. I have a feeling that toy airplanes are low on their list....