Originally posted by Woodsy
"Please educate me. How could a receiver and servos that are legal in one plane be illegal in another plane? "
Most (all?) of the park fliers we get here, fire bird, fighter bird etc, etc are on 27MHz radio gear, this is used and approved for surface RC, cars, boats etc etc and is not approved for aircraft RC, it gets around the laws by being sold as a "toy" with a range of only 500 meters.
if you used the radio gear in a "normal" RC plane you would be breaking the law and your duty of care as it is accepted that the RC gear is for "toys"
it would be OK to transplant the RC gear in to a plane that could also be considered a "toy"
i know its wishy washy but thats the rules, basically its the definition of "toy"
I think you are mistaken my friend. Let me site my source, the FCC
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/per.../bandplan.html
This is copied from that link
FCC rules list 80 channels in the 72.0 - 73.0 MHz and 75.4 -76 MHz VHF ranges for R/C transmissions. You must stop such transmissions, however, if they interfere with authorized radio operations in those VHF ranges or with broadcast TV reception on channels 4 or 5
FCC rules also list HF channels at 26.995, 27.045, 27.095, 27.145, 27.195, and 27.244 MHz that may be used to operate any kind of device including model aircraft and surface craft devices. R/C channels are not afforded any protection from interference due to the operation of fixed and mobile stations in other services assigned to the same or adjacent frequencies.
So, it would not be illegal to move radio equipment from an Aerobird and put it into another plane. Someone apparently gave you some bad info. I hope this clears it up.