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Yeah that totally worked with digital music and movie piracy. Oh wait no it didn't. People understand that a one in a million chance of being caught is actually less than the chance of being killed in a car wreck commuting to or from work. If people were that terrified on long shot disaster scenarios nobody would leave their house.
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Somthing to keep in mind, if an RFID device has a failure or glitch and reports a higher altitude than it was actually at the FAA is just going to assume it was right and they never fail or have glitches and slap you with a fine anyway.
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In addition, this concept that the only one of the 8 conditions for recreational operations in 44809 that the FAA cares about is the altitude condition is silly. The FAA, not anyone else, is going to have roving bands of altitude police just waiting to slap a fine on a person for being at 401 feet. |
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<250g airplanes have become extremely popular in the past year. So popular that one new US company started up that specializes in that size. They are so popular that they have trouble keeping them in stock. I have several and am about to finish another one. They are more fun than I expected, although I wish FAA would raise that to a couple of Lb. 1 Kg would be a nice round number.
FAA says they are toys and does not regulate them. That may be the future. https://willynillies.com/ . |
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Man, it's pretty crazy how some of the threads in the MAADA subforum have lately gone kind of obsessive-compulsive character-attacking crazy into the negativo-sphere. As far as doing something positive for the hobby, I'm proud of my efforts to try to rouse others up to contribute comments on the RID NPRM back in early 2020. I also intend to spearhead efforts to get my local flying site approved for a ceiling higher than 400', since it's clear that the local club leadership had no clue whatsoever how to go about doing that when the opportunity first presented itself, and likewise still have no clue how to go about doing that. (Maybe says something about the quality of communication between the AMA and the local clubs? Or not? I really don't know. All I know is that I'm going to take it on as personal project and try to get it done.) So that's what I'm focused on now, just positive stuff, nothing about bashing people. Of course, it goes without saying, that none of my fly-for-fun hobby aircraft will ever under any circumstances whatsoever be befouled with a disgusting thing like a RID transmitter. If I'm using a quadcopter drone for commercial work or academic research, sure, whatever, I'll play by their rules. But not while I'm just out enjoying my hobby.
Guys, let's face it. The FAA is being squeezed by heavy pressures coming both from the security/safety/anti-terrorism side of things, and from the "let's create a world where the national airspace system has a clear path for intensive commercial and scientific drone usage" side of things. That's the reality. That's the brave new world that we live in. No one can deny that a rc aircraft can easily be turned into a deadly weapon, or that idiots are flying their quadcopters in the airliner approach paths and other stupid places, or that the numbers of commercial/scientific drones flying in the airspace in the near future absolutely will proliferate exponentially for a while and the FAA must come up with some response to that. We hobbyists ought to do our best to just stay under the radar and not make waves, as we fly non-compliantly in our own little neck of the woods, be that via a quadcopter drone racing though the treetops under FPV with no spotter, or via a pattern flyer punching up well above 400' AGL during his practice session, or via a sailplane specked out at 2500 to 3000' AGL over the rural countryside far from any airport. That's what we do, and that's what we are most certainly going to keep doing. Safely. |
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