ORIGINAL: rsallen13
Reply to Sport Flyer (post #164)
For some reason the quote feature isn't working for me right now, but Sport Flyer if you wish to trully understand what is going on you must realize that the 72 mhz band is not "ours" as you keep saying. No single pilot, nor the AMA, has anymore "rights" to these channels than anyone else. Members of a Club and Parkflyers have equal access and usage rights to these channels in the eyes of the FCC. The AMA may have fought long and hard to get them but we (meaning all RC pilots AMA or not) are secondary users to these frequencies and AMA members whether in a club or not do not have more rights or jurisdiction over there usage.
And just because the AMA club was there first does not give them special status or control over the use of the frequencies. It just makes them the first group of flyers in the area.
First off I never said that park flyers could not use our frequencies, they indeed have the same rights. That said the AMA club indeed has extra rights by being there first under civil law. Doesn't have anything to do with FCC or AMA, but the tort system. Often that right doesn't get you much, for instance when someone builds a house near an existing club and starts compaining about noise, that right doesn't get you much unless that you can prove the owner knew about the noise before moving in, hard to do. In this case the club could claim first rights to those frequencies
in the immediate area. Unfortunately as you can see from the reaction here, it would be hard to make those park flyers understand this without winning a suit, or passing a new law. Though if you keep this to yourself and simply promote the fact that they the park flyer could also be shot down, then maybe they would be inclined to find a park further from the club, or better yet join the club.