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Old 01-11-2016 | 05:15 AM
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Originally Posted by jetjon
It's a fantasy to give the AMA ...ANY...credit here. if they had distanced themselves from the beginning....THEN....the lawsuits that would follow might have some teeth. Now, any judge would see the AMA as a "participant" in the drone community, because they "embraced" all this from the start! It should have been ignored from the beginning!!!! Talk to a cop about being a "willing" participant" involving a crime.......still....it is correct to say that the FAA will NOT listen to reason. (just my opinion)
The AMA has been a participant in the drone community since Walt Good flew his radio controlled Guff. The AMA does not use the word drone in their regulation, its called sUAV and those flown recreationally are called "model aircraft. Basically anything flown for fun and is flown LOS. BLOS is illegal so there is nothing to the AMA embracing drone conspiracy theory.