Originally Posted by Carlos G

Hi Dave,

Right now it seems the AMA is trying to figure out allot of details really fast regarding this registration business. Otherwise I believe the AMA would have already made some announcement about registering our "Drones". I suspect the AMA is working to minimize the impact this may have on hobbyist verses the commercial/professional application of the current tech stuff . Hopefully it could be that some sort of registration number can be carried internally for scale models. Its just they (The AMA) have to figure out how to define what is scale model verses a sport model i.e. Gee Bee R-1 verses Gee Bee R-3. One actually existed while the other is a fantasy. What about profile models?

There are allot of things to determine and not very much time. Thanks to a few irresponsible individuals, the Federal 900 lbs. gorilla is going to be imposing new rules that nobody wanted and is going to be difficult to enforce. Like all federal over reactions, it will be awful and too much paperwork for anyone to deal with. Most likely there will be Fees imposed to cover the costs of the new registration program. You can guess what will happen to the fees in a few years too. The problem is the same people who caused this problem are going to ignore the rules anyway and will only make matters worse.

Time to get off the soap box I guess...

Carlos G