I actually attended the AMA EC meeting a couple of years ago when the Safety Committee presented the new rules proposal and the rationale to the EC. This was the second meeting, the one that happened after Dave Brown pulled the fire alarm after the first one.

A big element of the presentation was the relative low speed that most people flew. This was a key part of the presentation, presenteed by Steve Ellzney.

Take that for what it is worth.


You might want to have it in January and have everyone not reup in the AMA so that all participants are not in the AMA at the time. Also, you might want to talk to Carl Mulroney (AMA Special Services) ahead of time, tell him it is a UAV contest, not within the realm of modeling and have the event specifically excluded from AMA coverage. He told me last year they could do that.