Originally Posted by
cj_rumley
I provided a citation in the post you are replying to. I didn't know that AMA had been recognized as a/the CBO (for purposes of 336) either, but that is a necessary condition for the statement by the AMA Government Relations guy to be true.
Well they sorta have been recognized:
FAA Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft
page 8 footnote 2
2 The FAA is aware that at least one community-based organization permits “first person view” (FPV)operations
during which the hobbyist controls the aircraft while wearing goggles that display images
transmitted from a camera mounted in the front of the model aircraft. While the intent of FPV is to provide
a simulation of what a pilot would see from the flight deck of a manned aircraft, the goggles may obstruct an operator’s
vision, thereby preventing the operator from keeping the model aircraft within his or her visual line of sight at all times.