FACT? Where was this identified as a fact? You're really reaching now, even for you! The FACT is, he flew at a public location, and the rest of the nearby public went about enjoying their activities without any outrage. Where is the problem? Only in your spin!
You are actually helping to prove the point I have been making for many years now! the main reason our hobby has come under scrutiny is due to public perception of drones (no matter how uninformed or unrealistic they may be). You can make this about a drone vs. fixed thing on these forums all you want, but the reality is in the eyes of the non-hobbyist public and in this instance it was the non-hobbyist public that simply didn't seem to be bothered by the fixed wing. No harm there. If the public had an issue with a MR operating there, would you call them haters, or would you take a step back and recognize their right to be alarmed (no matter how unfounded there concerns may or not be) and finally understand how and why we face the scrutiny and regulation we have in recent years. I have been trying to say all along that it is not my (or the others that have been labeled as MR/drone haters) "dislike" (I really don't have a dislike for them) for drones that has caused me to advocate for "traditional" activities, it is the FACT that the public sees them differently (no matter how unfounded their concerns may or may not be) and that fact is what has caused a knee-jerk reaction and regulation of the vast majority of modelers to have to fight to retain the right to operate as they have for many years because of the few who choose to operate their craft in a way that causes public outrage.

Astro