[QUOTE=Stickslammer;12523171].....A balsa and ply high wing trainer can be fitted for operation as FPV (First Person View) the same as a quad copter that's ready to fly out of the box.

I distilled your post down to it's pertinent part , and here's my belief ;

You want to fly beyond line of sight , with anything remotely controlled or preprogrammed (fixed wing , rotorcraft , etc) , then you should deal with the whole FAA airspace regs thing .

You want to fly TRUE line of sight only , NO fpv or preprogrammed flight , great , slap some ID numbers on it and stay out of the way of commercial BLOS and manned operations .

But that it could be so simple .....