RC Drones versus RC Helicopters

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:46:46 -0800, Six-Seven Romeo wrote:

Forgive me if this should go to an R/C blog instead of RAS but I think
that there are many glider drivers that like flying drones.

here's nothing unusual in the FAA thinking. Read this:

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?
catid=33&pagetype=65&appid=11&mode=detail&id=5631

This is a link to CAP658, which contains the Air Navigation Orders
covering model aircraft flying in the UK. I think you'll find that the
AMA/FAA thinking is pretty close to it. Note in particular that there's
an absolute prohibition on flying out of direct line of sight and that
this specifically requires an observer if the pilot is using FPV and that
use of binoculars to extend visual range is forbidden. Also that using a
model aircraft for air work is forbidden: if you want to use any size of
aircraft for commercial and/or paid work then the aircraft needs type
approval and regular inspection and the operator needs a license.

Speaking as an ex-aeromodeller I couldn't approve mo the last thing I
wanted was for some unqualified idiots with more money than sense or
skill to mess up my sport.

Do you really want to be tarred with the same brush as:

- that fool who shot his drone up to 3000 ft smack through his local CTR
and then posted the video on YouTube. And acted all hurt when the FAA
threw the book at him.

- a recent video of a FPV drone flyer screaming round, through and under
trees, bushes and climbing frames etc in a kids playground. Another
idiot. With his head in an FPV mask and fixated on controlling the
drone you really think he's going to see an approaching kid or two
before he hits them?

- the plonker who hit the White House while flying a borrowed drone at
night while, according to some sources, not entirely sober?


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