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Old 11-23-2015 | 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Sport_Pilot
Who said anything about loss of life? Even a 55 pounder amounts to a fender bender. Model airplanes including large ones have been around a long time and people have been doing stupid things for a while. Nothing has happened, and when it has there has been little damage to the aircraft. I'm not saying we should allow people to fly in front of aircraft. But registration is an overkill!
You can't compare the odds of a traditionally operated RC craft doing serious harm to the odds that exist with drones. The vast majority of Traditional RC crashes take place within the relatively safe confines of the club field.
By design, a large percentage of Drone crashes are destined to take place OUTSIDE of the safe confines of where the pilot has chosen to operate..
I don't even know how to respond to the "55 pounder is just a fender bender" line without sounding disrespectful.
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