Tampa FSDO: Posting drone video on Youtube qualifies as commercialdrone operation

On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 2:15:51 AM UTC+13, Sean Fidler wrote:
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Ridiculous.

I sleep well at night knowing Big Brother is looking after my safety.

And every time I hear a helicopter pass over my house, I get worried...

On 3/14/2015 7:37 AM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 2:15:51 AM UTC+13, Sean Fidler wrote:
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Ridiculous.

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Dan Marotta

Tongue in cheek. The FAA allows Private rated airplane pilots to tow gliders for hire, something I would consider much more critical than a remote control helicopter with a camera.

https://www.ssa.org/files/member/Pri...v5_2-27-11.doc

Sean Fidler wrote on 3/14/2015 6:15 AM:
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After reading the article, I've concluded it's not "the FAA" doing this,
but an individual in one FSDO, whose interpretation is unique, untested,
unused elsewhere, and is likely to withdrawn or modified when upper
management finds out about it.

Because RC model flyers have actually commercialized their flying for
decades with payment for articles, plans, kits, equipment, pictures, and
videos, it's not clear to me why this form of commercialization exceeds
the model aircraft standard so much it warrants a letter.

Since he isn't being penalized at this point, one suggestion is to
refuse the ad revenue if that is possible and sufficient, or remove the
videos, and go up the FAA food chain till someone retracts it or
supports it.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Feb/2010" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm
http://tinyurl.com/yb3xywl