Turbine waiver is ONLY an AMA requirement..... if you are not an AMA member, who regulates this..... get my drift?
AMA and Multirotors
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SleepyC
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Yea I see your point, but considering the FAA is already involved and writing commercial regulations, and they are GOING to enforce them, I was presenting a solution to exclude the hobby side and let them have at it with the commercial.
I have around $70K into commercial MR, and I'm about to sell them all because of the crap the FAA is pulling. Their solution is crushing an industry and me financially. I found something I was good at, did it safely for 4 years and all of a sudden it's illegal. It's ludicrous!
And the demand to have a PPL to fly commercial MR is stupid. I do not mind a school, or a process or a license... but to make a multi rotor pilot have a PPL... COME ON.
I don;t have the time or the money to pursue that. I have a solid record of 4 years with 500+ hours of commercial flight time and it's all worthless at this point.
I have around $70K into commercial MR, and I'm about to sell them all because of the crap the FAA is pulling. Their solution is crushing an industry and me financially. I found something I was good at, did it safely for 4 years and all of a sudden it's illegal. It's ludicrous!
And the demand to have a PPL to fly commercial MR is stupid. I do not mind a school, or a process or a license... but to make a multi rotor pilot have a PPL... COME ON.
I don;t have the time or the money to pursue that. I have a solid record of 4 years with 500+ hours of commercial flight time and it's all worthless at this point.
Islandflyer
GSN Sponsor Tier 1
Exactly!
combat chicken
100cc
Thanks for the update. Thought I saw something yesterday when they were interviewing the NYC police showing a paintball gun mounted on a drone as "B roll" during the interview. Very interesting indeed!
SleepyC
150cc
Morons will be morons.. this is fact.
There was a dumb gun show that aired on national TV where a dude wanted them to mount a machine gun on a drone and they ended up doing something like it... again.. MORONS.
Steve,
I want you to know that I fully understand your situation, and that it is mostly the result of those that lack the common sense to fly their aircraft accordingly, that has caused you to lose your chance to make a few bucks while doing what you love.
The biggest problem, and you agree, is the Military, commercial, and hobby "drones" were basically designed and flown under the guise of hobby avaiation..... which should have never been the case, but there were no other regulating bodies at the time.
On the other hand, these Multi's with FPV/GPS guidance also have a HUGE way of being used in a negative light while being under the "hobby" moniker.
I find Multi's facinating, I don't own one, But I definately see their potential in "hobby" avaiation, with rules/ regulations thru the AMA applied.... I personally feel that ANYONE that wants to fly hobby avaiation in the NAS be required to be an AMA member. that way the information path is established for any rules/ regulations that may or maynot come forthwith.
Commercial model avaiation.....start your own CBO.
ChickenBalls
"Cool Guy"
I agree somewhat, but I just don't think it's worth the risk they bring to the field. I think most of these guys fall in right where most of these drone buyers fall, they don't care about AMA, the safety code or anything else other than flying. Open that new drone ( which more than likely is a quad ) but thanks to AMA it's a drone now, AMA has provided them with a brochure/literature on how to join AMA, they say $60, hell no, I'll buy me some batteries with that $60
njswede
150cc
Is this what they're going to do? Do you know that for a fact? I thought the whole thing was still up in the air (no pun intended).
That's the premonition........ At least the classroom portion of it.