Trappy stopped in to talk to us about what he has been up to lately and recent FAA shenanigans.
Here are a few actions you can take:
As a US citizen, submit your own comments to the FAA on this new interpretation of what a model aircraft is here:http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=FAA-2014-0396-0001
You can make a polite, informed and respectful comment and give a rating of the FAA on their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/FAA?sk=reviews
You can sign a petition to have the FAA rescind the ruling.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-united-states-federal-aviation-administration-rescind-your-latest-ruling-on-model-fpv-flying-and-the-personal-commercial-use-of-unmanned-aerial-vehicles
If you have a moment, please take all of the actions above. The FAA needs to know your feelings on this matter. With a group effort we can at the very least not watch our hobby banned quietly. We are by no means experts on the matter, so please share your thoughts below.
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However, I'm still unclear about WHY the FAA is taking this course. I just don't get it. Is it *really* all just about government budgets and money? Even if they fined us all--and collected!--it would still come to peanuts. Peanuts as far as government dollar amounts are concerned, I mean.
So why? What's their long game here? What is the FAA *really* after by doing this? Is there some backstory here you're not talking about? Also, shouldn't we all be calling our various federal congressional reps on this matter?
I sure hope the AMA has hired a cutthroat Washington, D.C. lobby shop...
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He admitted in the pod cast to having equipment failer while flying from the back of a prison to some mountain. That could have happened in some of the illresponsible places that he's flown in the past resulting in property damage or someone being injured.
Are we supposed to just go "oh that's so cool" while he goes home and leaves a mess of regs. in his wake and makes money?
Trappy and others like him who fly recklessly just because to sell product or just for the hell of it should be call out not praised.
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Seems like the only people who the US government want to fly RC is the government and it's agents. They're pre-empting civilian use of the skies.
This issue is very close to gun control - 'they'll have to take my transmitter out of my cold dead hands'.
(Great to hear Josh B's libertarian like thoughts early in the podcast - yes, often bureaucracy CREATES the problem it is supposedly addressing )
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