Originally Posted by rbstern

If someone learns to fly with it enabled, never flies a model without it, and just enjoys flying a SAFE enabled plane...so what? Why should that bother anyone?

Someone who is enthusiastic about the hobby and interested in advancing their skills will know they'll eventually have to turn SAFE off to go further. If they progress wisely from SAFE, they stand a good chance of becoming a successful RC pilot. I knew many people who washed out of the hobby because they were tired of the expense of crashing planes and couldn't find enough help to get them over the hump. That was 30 years ago, before the marvel of software was mainstream in RC flying. There's no reason, if used as intended, going out of SAFE to the intermediate mode, and then finally to full control, someone can't learn to recover from mistakes. Sure, some will be overconfident due to SAFE and make mistakes. Seen that plenty without SAFE. That's a cognitive issue, not a technological one.

Are you bothered by people who can only play chopsticks on the piano? Never learned to cook anything other than scrambled eggs? Someone who has a fantastic eye with a camera but only takes pictures with their phone?

RC flying is a hobby with all kinds of participants. If SAFE gets someone in the air, and keeps their interest because they managed to not drive the model into the ground on the first flight, it's a good thing.