Originally Posted by
Silent-AV8R
Here's my situation. 2 AMA Chartered Club flying sites within 30 to 40 minutes travel time. Paved 600 to 800 foot long runways. Both require AMA. One club is $40 per year the other $100. One has altitude limits due to being close to an airport. The other has no altitude or noise limits.
I do not own anything that could be flown in a local park (mostly 50cc and larger gasoline planes) and RC aircraft of all types are banned in all parks in my County. Plus all the local school districts restrict RC airplanes and public access to their land.
So I guess the only reasonable solution is to stop flying the planes I like and move to a place where park/school flying is allowed. This will be a bit inconvenient for my employment, and that of my wife, but who cares. Franklin says flying small electrics in local parks is the way to go!!! His economic analysis "proves" it!!!
I don't have any Freudian need to fly large airplanes. If you enjoy flying the bigger stuff, more power to you, and you obviously need to pay to play. For those that don't though, are we somehow lesser members? The economic analysis wasn't proof of anything, nor was it intended to be such, and I certainly never indicated that it was. I simply provided a side by side comparison of the pro's and con's.