Originally Posted by
hawkerone
Quibble and try to split hairs to your heart's content, but if your sUAS is in a collision with a manned aircraft, we're all screwed. The press will scream like mashed cats and everyone who was on our side in the FAA will run for cover amidst shouts of 'Ah-ha! See we told you so!'. Please, I'd like to keep flying my planes a few more years. Take up model boats or trains till you get your altitude attitude fixed.
Not splitting any hairs at all.
For years and years it's been against "the law" for full scale airplanes to fly over "outdoor gatherings" at altitudes below 1000'. It's just another FAA rule that they are supposed to enforce.
Ever hear of anyone being fined piles of money or going to jail? Or for that matter, losing their license or having it suspended? Whereas have you ever witnessed an idiot waving as he sailed over your runway at the folks gathered there? I've lost count of those incidents. And yet FAR 91.119 is no less important than any others the FAA is supposed to enforce.
A number of lessons to note here...... How effectively the FAA enforces, and how skewed your perspective of the situation.