Police Chief vows to deploy an unmanned aerial vehicle despite contentions

"Richard Riley" wrote in message ...
: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:12:26 GMT, Larry Dighera
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: As long as they maintain visual contact with it at all times and the
: pilot is a member of AMA, they should be fine.
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: If not - good luck. FAA will stomp on them.



AMA membership is NOT required to fly an RC aircraft, most folks join so they comply with a club's requirements and for
the AMA provided insurance coverage...

FAA can try to stomp, but this 'small' aircraft will be flying ~400' high and will be within sight of the operator, not
real different from a plain ol' RC airplane. Sounds like it would be an interesting test case at least.

I say go for it; we need better surveillance type police work these days, not the blanket searches like in front of
'airline security' or the so-called sobriety check points...