Originally Posted by
ira d
I don't think it's so much a matter of separation as it is a matter of enforcement, Also I don't it's so much what we the everyday modeler can do as we have no enforcement power but
what the FAA could do. I think anybody who knows anything about modeling knows that these problems with conflicts with full scale aircraft is a fairly recent situation and they also
know that the majority of the problems don't come from established flying sites. I think it should be the AMA that educate the FAA in areas they don't understand about the situation.
The News media and the Public know very little if anything at all except DRONES are Dangerous to the flying public and all R/C TOYs are DRONES and therefore DANGEROUS to the public. This is where the PROBLEM lies. No one but us know that we the responsible R/Cers are not the problem. That being said we have to find a way that we SEPARATE our selves from the IDIOT, less we be swept up with them when something does happen. The FAA/NTSB only know that if there is a problem they can eliminate it by regulating it out of existence, all of it. PERIOD.
That being said what do U think the AMA has been doing for more than 6 years. Meeting after meeting with the FAA to help them understand R/C Model aviation and how it should be or better yet not be dealt with the FAA and the FAA MODERNIZATION AND REFORM ACT OF2012.
Let me ask U do U really believe that the media, public or the FAA see any difference between your local club making NOISE out in a pasture next to a new housing development and some IDIOT flying a Quad over his neighbor hood ,Under the final approach to Kennedy?
Last edited by HoundDog; 05-25-2015 at 11:34 AM.