FAA test for RC fixed wing?
 

• Eric Williams (District II) noted that the FAA testing boards seem to agree that the proposed tests need
to be on the level of a 13-year-old. Eric has worked with the FAA from the perspective of a modeler. He
expects the testing result to be something along the line of possibly a 1-hour informational presentation
and then the test.

You're talking about the government. Nothing surprises me. It has been said that a camel is a horse designed by a government committee.

Good one. How about this one: there is no such thing as a temporary government measure.
or: I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.

Most couldn't pass an eighth grade math test from 100 years ago, either.

And who, pray tell, is at fault for that?

the department of education...

I was thinking more along the lines of the parents since they let everything happen without saying anything or complaining

Perhaps at first glance , you can see the blame here as being a chain of "who done wrong" , the parents , the department of education , societal erosion , etc .

BUT !

At the end of the day , once the child has grown , doesn't the ultimate responsibility lie with the person who allows his or her self to remain uneducated ? As in , what about taking personal responsibility for correcting areas in one's life that are lacking ?

Yes of course young children need to be properly educated , that much is obvious . But by the time they are teenagers/young adults , by the time they are 18 and we're putting guns in their hands and sending them into combat with our military , they should have already developed the presence of mind to realize that knowledge IS power , and that in order to become powerful the quest for knowledge has to be nothing less than a personally driven lifelong commitment . Making excuses for people's unwillingness to actively help educate themselves leads to all kinds of mollycoddling of people who otherwise should be taking the personal responsibility of taking care of themselves .

The government can't mandate or otherwise force someone to WANT be educated anymore than the government could force someone to want to make other healthy life/lifestyle choices , "Supersized" fast food menu bans be damned ! .....

Hi , I briefly talked to one of the district VPS at a swap meet a few weeks and he told me that there was test in works and it was going to have easy questions on it. He also said that FAA is pushing transponders for our RC aircraft just like they have on full size airplanes.
Michael Johnston

The way I see it, you want to make our kids smarter, take away their smart phones. They can't do math, the smart phone calculator function does it for them. They can't write, too much time texting so spelling, grammar and actually forming sentences is foreign to them. Some school districts are actually dropping the requirement of being able to write longhand as it's no longer needed. That's news to me, I have to write quite often in my work and doing my hobbies. I've actually been told that if you can't find something on the internet, it doesn't exist. If you can't find an item for sale on the internet, it doesn't exist either.