Originally Posted by
jeffEE
Just because you can pilot full size aircraft does not mean you can pilot RC aircraft. I worked for many years at a national hobby chain store, and many times tried to talk a full size pilot out of starting in the RC hobby with the WW2 fighter. And most of them came in the next time crying about how fast it hit the ground and smashed. I am not saying that I like the idea of passing a flying test, but I have no fear of my flying skills or ability to pass it. I would just hate to think about the long wait to find a person to give me the test.
I will agree with you to a certain extent as to just because I can fly full scale does not mean that I can fly RC. BUT !! I CAN FLY RC !! I built RC models for years, even before I learned to fly them. I just liked building them and just sold most of them or gave them to friends. Finally decided if I was going to build them, I might as well learn how to fly them, thus I did. I'm 73 years old and have building since the age of 8 . Think that I can say I have mastered both the building and flying of RC models.
Not saying that it was any easier for me as it was not, but I did master the RC Hobby. Part of the problem that full scale pilots have with learning RC is that in full scale you feel the aircraft and in RC their is no feel.
If you really want to see some bad pilots in full scale and RC, take a look at Doctors and Lawyers. They think they know everything ! LOL
P.S. You might want to come up to date with all of the proposals and my was sent to the " AMA " and not the FAA for a reason. From what I have been told and the information that I have gathered is that you do not have to worry about a FLIGHT TEST. I have been informed that it would be an " ONLINE TEST " administered by the AMA. Now go figure that one !
If it was to be a FLIGHT TEST administered by the FAA, it would have to be given by an FAA CHECK PILOT. Now, how and where do you think that the FAA could come up with so many qualified personnel ?