Older threads default to the current name so it's hard to decipher exactly when "and Drone" was added to the RCG Model Aircraft Advocacy forum. But searching turns up some gems. This from March 2012, AMA IN ACTION, shows Rich Hanson giving the FU to the FAA right after Section 336 was passed, "Your questions answered - The 400 foot limit for model aircraft", sub-title "
worrisome comment about a 400 foot limit" from John W. McGraw, Deputy Director, FAA Flight Standards Office: https://amablog.modelaircraft.org/am...odel-aircraft/
The McGraw interview, TL;DR, the FAA did not consider drones to be model aircraft. The idiot Rich Hanson is who decided otherwise and threw away the sweet deal of Section 336 over FPV.
RCGroups, August 2013: https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...rposes/page192
Starts at page 192. Pretty long but a good read for anyone interested in the AMA debacle, comments from B. Shulman, and a lot of suspended accounts!
RCGoups, June 2014, "
FAA says all (goggles) FPV is illegal": https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...FPV-is-illegal
The dope running AMA in 2014 with his armchair lawyering defending FPV before his reality check and the FAA reminding him who is actually in charge.
Found in this RCGroups thread, December, 2010:https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...-Concerned-%29
Titled " FAA vs Model Aviation (Should We Be Concerned?)". Should be the other way around. AMA lost.