Originally Posted by
mr_matt
Ira you are not getting it.
The FAA is going to regulate drones. I think that is very clear. To me it has been clear for a very long time
We had a chance to not be classified as"drones" and therefore not be regulated. For years, the drone guys have been trying to do the OPPOSITE.
THis is the part many people new to this might not know. From the days before the ARC (2006 or 2007?), the rallying cry of the Aerial Photography (AP) "drone" crowd was "how come you are going to regulate us, these RC model guys are doing the same things".
So we should have separated then. We did, to an extent by highlighting commercial vs hobby use. This worked far a little bit, but now the problem has exploded.
We had to somehow ARBITRARILY define what is a drone, by defining what a drone is NOT. Anything short of this is just grey areas. I personally have "drones", and have flown FPV. There are already drone associations, they don't need or want AMA.
Matt I do get it but I just happen to think putting restrictions on modelers that are not part of the problem won't satfiy the FAA because they know that many will still use cameras in there models if they want. That being said I
do think the FAA already knows that most of the people they have a problem with are not AMA members flying at RC sites and I don't think this two tier rule that many would like to see will work anyway because if the
FAA is going to regulate RC craft they can't just regulate modelers that don't belong to the AMA and I don't think the FAA views camera use as always a bad thing. Just my .02