Is an airplane a quadcopter? Of course not. There are differences between these aircraft, and they should be treated as such.

Is there a difference between an aircraft which is controlled thru video or from line of site? Of course there is. My point is that the AMA has not done a good job of defining the differences. So now all of these aircraft, that clearly are different are being lumped together and are going to have to play by the same rules. Which is not fair. It is not fair to the aircraft that do not have the same capabilities of the other. The other being the ones that have created the media attention. Does the general public know the difference? Of course not. Does someone have a responsibility to educate them? Well, it would be nice if the AMA were trying to do something. The issue seems to be getting to complicated to explain to the general public, so we are all facing the same rules. Weather we need them or not.

I have been building scale models now close to 10 years. But just this last summer I began flying control line again. It sure has been exhilarating. If RC gets too restrictive, I will just "move up" to CL again. I will fly scale with the likes of Dave Platt. He seemed to have seen the writing on the wall of RC years ago.