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For the Love of Radio Controlled Aircraft in the US, New Rules Possible.
beanflying:
--- Quote from: LaserSteve on March 02, 2020, 12:58:57 pm ---So I spend much of the night realizing my 7400 word essay was overkill, although the proposal within was very logical except for the backhaul. I read about thirty pages of the comments. I even came up with a term for non INS/GPS based models vs over the horizon capable drones. My term was "Traditional Model Aircraft". Imagine my surprise when I came across the attached Gem of a comment from a former FAA employee...
Enjoy... Its a public document by nature of being submitted...
Steve
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Now that is quite a response :-+
boffin:
This has partly been the drone using community shooting themselves in the foot. The number of videos on youtube from mid-height (500ft) drone operations, clearly inside controlled airspace is staggering, and a lot of drone flyers have a seriously bad attitude with the "why should I have to follow that rule" type of attitude.
There was a very picturesque video of a drone flying over a local mountrain that went around the office I worked in about 5 years ago. The problem was that the drone was directly in the approach path to an international airport; and a route I was very familiar with, because I've flown it myself in a small plane.
My co-workers didn't understand why when they were all going "oooooh" "ahhhhh" and I was saying the guy that made the video should be locked up and throw away the key.
A 2kg drone vs a small Cessna is going to get messy; and I'm frankly shocked it hasn't happened yet causing loss of life.
I've actually told someone standing 50ft from the control tower (CXH) to stop flying their drone, and they were confused as to why it was an issue.
Add that to the wants of the Amazons/Ubereats/UPSs of the world for low level drone delliveries, and airspace is going to get shut down, except for approved flying locations (which is how it used to be for RC planes)
beanflying:
--- Quote from: angrybird on March 02, 2020, 06:27:58 pm ---Beanflying, you are in Australia, not the USA. You have no idea what you are talking about nor even room to speak on this issue. A majority of the USA love the guy and are looking forward to his re-election! He is a wonderful president, for everyone except the emotionally uncontrolled type whom he loves poking on these mediums such as twitter, while we all laugh :-+
Actions speak much louder than words! Always remember that.
So this thread is about FAA rules, not your personal opinions on someone who lives on the opposite side of the globe from you, so let's get back to it :-DD
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As it is you who wants to continue praising him as President WHICH IS POLITICS! I choose to call out the Man well before that which is not. He is a liar, serial marital cheat and morally bankrupt human. And no Australians are most certainly not jealous of this Muppet. So yes please stop talking politics :palm:
And sort of related https://qz.com/1571147/boeing-737-max-crisis-puts-spotlight-on-faa-under-trump/ The FAA is suffering internal instability and other problems including budget cuts..
angrybird:
You're not a very nice person... Are you this unkind in real life?
Red Squirrel:
Great, that means Canada will follow. Seems to be how the cycle goes. US comes up with stricter rules, Canada comes up with stricter rules right after. It seems governments are just trying to slowly ban drones because they want to be the only ones who have rights to use them.
They already have it where you need a license here now and need to register it. It's basically like owning a gun.
Seems anything people try to do for fun these days is either regulated heavily, taxed, or just made illegal. Governments have to get their ugly face out of our lives.
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