ORIGINAL: J_R
Apparently, Mr. DeBolt has had considerable discussion with those some at AMA. I have sent him a PM in hopes that he can shed fruther light on this issue. I bet he has had discussions about FF being autonomous and better knows the AMA position.
Would be interested to hear it, since the above proposal does seem to indicate that free flight models will have to have a 72 MHz radio control system on board ! [X(] I guess the suggestion does not say anything about the R/C system being turned on, or connected to anything, so you could still have a free flight model under these rules if you just used the RC system as ballast... the fact that it is not used does make it redundant
which meets that part of the definition!
I think some people really need to think about the wording of their proposals before trying to push them through... otherwise the replacement wording is just as bad as the original wording that it is intended to replace.
Gordon