Originally Posted by
ECHO24
About your tagline, "
Someone please explain to me how flying with FPV goggles on is LOS Flying." There is article about that on jrupprechtlaw.com. Jonathan Rupprecht was the lead attorney for RaceDayQuauds in their losing lawsuit last July over Remote ID which was rejected by the US Court of Appeals. RDQ lost not only on the 4th amendment claim but on every other process claim saying the FAA didn't follow the rules. Jonathan Rupprecht won't put his name on it, but he posted this by RDQ saying FPV goggles comply with LOS rules if you can take off the goggles and see your drone. It's hogwash of course, or their wouldn't be a spotter rule. But if you want to wade through 20-plus paragraphs of gibberish by the same people who lost bigly on every one of their other arguments, here it is. Scroll down to First Person View Flyers:
https://jrupprechtlaw.com/remote-identification/
Tyler Brennan of RaceDayQuads is a veteran and F15 pilot and seems like an all around good guy. Where he got off track on drones is anyone's guess, but nothing he says about the RC flying hobby can be taken seriously. As in the case of AMA, the only explanation is FPV rots the brain, even F15 pilots.
I kinda followed along on that site when all of this first came down than just stopped checking in due to lack of success on his part. I still don't see how FPV is line of sight flying. I watch people to this day at local flying fields flying way beyond line of sight routinely "just because they can" is the answer I get when I ask about the rule. All the rules in the world will not stop anyone from doing as they please.
Mike