There is no specific provision in the AMA Safety Code that prohibits on-board video systems or having someone fly the aircraft using those systems. It simply can not be equiped with on-board systems that allow it to fly out of visual range of the pilot. I've seen some people try and fly a model using a head-down video display from a forward looking camera. Its not as easy as you think and you MUST have a safety pilot who can take over the plane when the head-down pilot looses it...

And again, (at this point) if the aircraft and pilot comply with the AMA safety code, the FAA doesn't want to have anything to do with it...

As far as the potential to do some harm with a model airplane, IF the model complies with the AMA safety code, its potential is VERY limited to do so. It doesn't have the range or paylod capacity, its too difficult to fly (NO autopilots in AMA-type aircraft, remember), and the person operating it has to be really close to the destination (NO flights out of unenhanced visual range, remember). They simply aren't a credible threat (dispite what that idiot NY Senator Schumer says - what a moron [:@] ) and the "powers-that-be" recognize that. The issue is the potential for collision with manned aircraft...


Bob