However the FAA is concerned about UAVs opererating in the same airspace as commercial aircraft. The AMA is simply throwing up its hands and outlawing autonomous models from it perview! Supposedly because there are so few who fly them. I guess the control line and free flight modelers will be thrown out next. The AMA should be fighting for them and setting up waiver procedures with the FAA as the model rocket modelers have done. Right now you cannot set an altitude record and meet FAA's rules, and their is no waiver procedure to do so. And that is not necessarily autonomous, but I bet they would be safer than peering through a large telescope!