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At a minimum, this gives you guys who shoot commercially a valid response should the FAA contact you: cite the case and then tell them that they have no enforceable laws or regulations applicable to flight of model aircraft. Then suggest that they go make some. This entire hullabaloo from the FAA is absolutely nothing but them trying to buy time with scare tactics because they don't want to make enough time in their docket to sit down and concentrate on the issue for 90 days and actually make some valid regulations. Their time would be better spent doing that than trolling forums and trying to scare people with "laws" that do not exist!
This simply proves what I've been saying all along: that the FAA has no enforceable regulations for model aircraft at this time and to suggest that simply charging a fee for footage taken with a camera affixed to a model aircraft makes it something other than a model aircraft is ludicrous! The judge even mentions in this case that the current "suggestions" WRT model aircraft in the FAR are nothing more than voluntary suggestions at this time!
What really needs to happen is that the guy who won this case should now sue the FAA for the attorney fees related to the case. Something tells me that the FAA won't stop their (invalid) strong-arming until they are hit in the wallet. Money is king.
Mike
This simply proves what I've been saying all along: that the FAA has no enforceable regulations for model aircraft at this time and to suggest that simply charging a fee for footage taken with a camera affixed to a model aircraft makes it something other than a model aircraft is ludicrous! The judge even mentions in this case that the current "suggestions" WRT model aircraft in the FAR are nothing more than voluntary suggestions at this time!
What really needs to happen is that the guy who won this case should now sue the FAA for the attorney fees related to the case. Something tells me that the FAA won't stop their (invalid) strong-arming until they are hit in the wallet. Money is king.
Mike