Originally Posted by
astrohog
In all reality, traditional modeling is no more or less dangerous today than it has been for the last 80 years, so a lot of this hullabaloo over traditional model operations is rather silly and in reality, won't dramatically (or marginally for that matter!) make traditional modeling activities, or commercial aviation on iota safer.
Except that -- some are using the "hullabaloo" as an opportunity to tighten restrictions on traditional model aviation to an absurd degree. Arguably "safer", yes. But it's a bit like boiling the patient to cure a bacterial infection...