Originally Posted by
hairy46
Am so very very sick of drones and what they are doing to this hobby! Why oh why did the AMA back them?
It hasn't even started yet. Per the sUAS NPRM these things are no longer classified as "civil UAS" where they seemed to fit as previously categorized. FAA has consolidated the 5 separate categories formerly considered into just one. There are now just commercial sUAS and model airplanes in the under 25 Kg UA category. The ones generating all the bad publicity that are not operated for hire are, you guessed it: model airplanes. The faint line that might have allowed modelers to say "we" aren't 'them' has been erased.