Originally Posted by
OzMo
Well with the vast number of nearly self flying machines being sold the crap is going to continue. But it is mostly idiots and non AMA in my opinion. The media is feeding on it some what. An example is not many mention the quad that dumped itself on the White House lawn was owned by a government employee. This is hearsay as well.
Personally I can't wait for delivery drones to bring me free equipment......now where did I put the butterfly net?
Agree that it's mostly fools that are grabbing media attention, but not that it has anything to do with whether or not they are AMA members. AMA demonstrably agrees (but argues otherwise) that there is no discernible difference in the safety record set by the general population of modelers and AMA members, as in their argument for CBO control of modeling they cited the record set by all modelers, because they could not demonstrate that the subset of AMA members were any better as regards safety. If AMA had any influence on the safety record set by all, 90% of the total that are not AMA members and have been kicked to the curb by AMA must have felt AMA influence by some mechanism other than membership in AMA, say by osmosis.