Originally Posted by
porcia83
Not actually his full quote, but here is the paragraph where the line came from.
MRM’s are not inherently bad. The problem is that they require little skill to fly. Novices with no modeling experience can and do fly them. Since an MRM pilot doesn’t need flight instruction and they can be flown from a small area there is no incentive to join a local club or the AMA. This is reflected in our membership numbers. Less than 10% of our members list MRM or First Person View (FPV) as their interest. Most of the current MRM and FPV pilots that are AMA members are traditional modelers who have expanded into these areas not new recruits to our fold.
"A MRM pilot doesn't need flight instruction, so easy to fly, etc etc.... And they are flown in a small area so no incentive to join a club."
And what part of that is not true? Last time I checked, seems they're selling millions of drones and people seem to be flying them w/o instruction (so that part's true). And also it seems there's ample youtube and other video showing them flying them at places other than clubs, so the statement about incentive would seem to be true as well.
Seems to me, he's looking at the world as it is and not as some hope it would be.