ORIGINAL: ianober
ORIGINAL: Gordon Mc
ORIGINAL: ianober
ORIGINAL: Gordon Mc
ORIGINAL: ianober
This is what I had meant Gordon, AMA is only insurance. If the State or City ordinances that oversee the facilty are ok with it then anyone can fly there without a turbine waiver. I would like to see the AMA try and stop someone from doing this.
Then, as previously suggested, call Carl up and tell him you're going to fly a 100lb model at 300 mph and that the AMA can do nothing about it. Please let us know how you get on.
Bravado on the forum is easy ... let's see it done for real
Gordon
Come on Gordon, your being ridiculous. How about for something a little more "common". How about for a 18lb. model doing 150 mph?
Uhh.... hello.... It has nothing to do with "common" - the whole point here is to see what the AMA's position is on someone deliberately busting the rules and claiming that "it's OK coz I wasn't at an AMA chartered club's site. Flying unwaivered without a buddy-box is busting the rules ; 100 lbs is busting the rules ; 300 mph is busting the rules, etc.
Unless your position is that the AMA is OK with you busting one rule at a time, but not two simultaneously, then surely the optimum way to test the theory is to get their attention by telling them you're going to bust several rules at the same time... ?
Gordon
So then why doesn't the AMA require all Turbine sales to require a waiver? Thats where it can only be regulated to some degree. If I lived in BFE and put in an field in my backyard on MY 200 acres or whatever, I would be pretty pissed of the AMA said that I couldn't fly turbines there without their permission. They cant do that!!! Bottom line, AMA is there for protection and minor regulation, not enforcement of flying everywhere. Thats all I was saying.
It's simple ... if you are not an AMA member, then you are not governed by the AMA rules, so you are free to buy a hundred turbines then fly and crash them in your own 200 acres as much as you want. You have no AMA membership or waiver for them to threaten you with.
Once you ARE an AMA member, that changes and the AMA does have something to hold over your head.
Gordon