the "committee" and the AMA decided to put a weight restriction in place for reasons which we may never agree. Perhaps they will see fit in the future to remove or raise them.
That aint how an organiation of members, like a Member Org or Acedemy, should operate.
While the recurring theme of "Oh well, whats done is done so we all might as well give up" is popular with most AMA folks, I dont just give up because the other side declares the debate should not exist rather than provide valid points.
When the org makes a rule that is bad, like the ole TailTouch situation,
the membership can & should have it changed to meet the needs of the members, or at least common sense.
To give up and just accept that slower planes are safer so arbitrary limits should exists
would be inviting the 60mph limit all all planes including Turbines and Pylon.... cause it would be safer.
For the premiss of general safety speed limit on 11lb Buddybox planes, what is the reason to have that limit only when FPV is involved? As is, the weight limit only on FPV makes no sense when it tries to use the concept of impaired piloting leads to more crashing, due to the unimpaired and general use of Buddybox eliminates that impaired piloting. That concept falls flat when we say the weight limit is just applying a metric of how impaired the buddyslave piloting is, but there is no such standard or weight limits based on slave piloting ability/impairment for buddyboxing... the Blind Chimp example. What is the dividing line of buddypilot ability to fly a 50lb plane? What level of slave piloting is required for a 90lb plane?
The weight line has been drawn under the premiss of piloting impairment, but then they remove that assumption of impaired piloting with the use of the unimpaired and un-weight-restricted Buddy Master... which now has a weight restriction for FPV but not blind guys / chimps: What level of slave impairment other than FPV has a buddy weight restriction? 550 makes a OujiBoard on buddy is safer than an experienced guy using buddy fpv. HQ must listen to a lot of the Who, cause they have a deaf dumb blind pinball kid fly buddy without weight restrictions.
I have asked how a buddy master can safely control an 11lb plane if the lil buddy is a chimp,
but somehow not safely do it if that chimp puts on FPV.
No FPV buddybox safe, FPV buddybox unsafe. What is the buddy master doing different?
Simple question, why doesnt it get answered instead of trying to stop questions.
What causes the buddy master to become unsafe when the blind chimp puts on FPV?
...uh, but only when the blind FPV chimp is flying an 11lb plane, cause buddybox is safe with blind FPV chimps with 9lb planes.