Gordon-
Of course it does.
Now look at what Hal DeBolt is proposing: " Any model aircraft using autonmous flight shall operate within the line of sight only and will
also have a redundent 72 mhz system operating on board." Any inclusive enough for you?
When the flim-flam was presented to the EC at the midnight hour for inclusion in the 2004 Safety Code, at least some of the VP's that voted for it thought it applied to R/C models only. After the EC meeting and the vote approving the motion, the wording of it was changed to be inclusive of all model aircraft, unambiguously. The whole thing has been a smoke-and-mirrors act, and the principal paranoid behind it all is in a state of denial.
Der Brown said at the last EC meeting that making the ban on autonomous operation just go away is the best option. This time he got it right.

Abel