Originally Posted by smithcreek

Throwing the "you are wrong" crap in your posts just makes you look like more of an idiot than the content of the rest of your posts, so you may want to lay off. I specifically said if the AMA wants to get involved with and advocate for drones fine, but the first thing they should do is get the FAA to recognize line of sight flying rc planes and helicopters as a separate category.

When all this started the AMA made the choice to exclude anything but FPV with a second pilot on a buddy box. So at the point the AMA felt it was perfectly fine to throw all the other people flying outside that definition "under the bus" precisely because they felt being associated with drones and the people flying them threatened our hobby. The AMA understood that many of the people buying these things have no training, no experience and by simple statistics a large percentage will have no common sense. The AMA was smart enough to recognize a recipe for disaster when it saw it, but later they realized how many people were buying these things and changed their decision in order to sign them up as dues paying members. In fact they are lobbying to make it a law that anyone flying one MUST join a recognized CBO, ie. the AMA. I think, even if the AMA can get the regulations they are hoping for at first, down the road things will change as more and more idiots get these things and do stupid things with them. If the AMA does not make it clear now that rc flying and drones are two distinct categories we will all pay the price when the regulations are tightened.