ORIGINAL: KidEpoxy
Not refering to Big Texas flying, but heart of the Silicon Valley in San Jose / Milpitas, California... ya'll heard a thing or two about the crazy laws restricting everything under the sun in California? yeah, that place. We get 3 cities' cops, sherrif, and HiwayPatrol driving around. And I'm sure ya'll also heard of california having
a lawsuit or two filed each year. Heck, they even put smog laws on the kids scooters, threatening the japanese company that makes them if they ship another to CA. You can stand around a Fire Pit drinking beer, but only if there is food to cook, otherwise it is an Illegal Warming Fire rather than a Legal Cooking Fire according to Los Angeles AQMD smoglaws. The firemen told us to have a pack of hotdogs handy next time they show up, some nice folk.
So don't worry, I'm not gloating about Big Texas, I'm co-miserating about Bay Area California Orwellian overwatch and flying there.
50%- So what you say at the end of your post kinda demonstrates the monopoly / control idea. You
HAVE TO have AMA to fly, where is your choice of insurers? Your choice of instruction source, or just who made them
the only place that can say "Yes, he knows how to fly"
I would like to see this "utopian" uncotrolled uninsured RC field where some young stud walks up with a never flown $3k whirlybird with CF blades and plows his heli into a crowd because you think the AMA is too controlling.
wow, that sounds kinda horrible. People getting hurt aint the kind of thing one should like to see. But then, without that kind of thinking there would be no GawkerBlocks on the opposite side of the freeway from the accident. Oh well, Society- what ya gonna do. You think what you like and I'll think what I like and everybody will be happy.
Virgina has plenty of places to do things. I recall going out and shooting some clays & cans just up against some hillside when visiting some old army pals in Virginia
(I called it East By-God Virginia
). I know RC flying aint safe like shooting 45s, but you just gotta get out to god's green acres more.
Anyhoo, I'm gonna see what the OP has to say about where he wants the thread to go, Internal AMA issues or overall AMA talk, cause we're getting into Is Not - Is Too, and nobody enjoys that
Ya'll keep your powder dry
KE