So, next week I can hardly get to work. If I stay home I can't fly my real airplane and the AMA wants to leave my toys at home too.
Yea, I feel real safe now.
-Ben
Doug McLaren wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Doug McLaren wrote:
| Not that it's up to the AMA, but also this link --
| | http://www.faa.gov/Newsroom/highlights/rnc_fa2.htm
| | *does* explcitly mention that model airplanes are not permitted.
To expand on that, that link is to the revised flight advisory. The original post gave a link to the original flight advisory.
This page is linked to from --
http://www.faa.gov/ Click on `Pilots: Flight Restrictions', which takes you to http://www.faa.gov/Newsroom/highlights/rnc_flight_advisory.cfm
It doesn't seem to prohibit model airplanes everywhere, but there are certain areas where it definately does seem to explicitly prohibit their use.
And of course this isn't the final NOTAM, so things could change further before it becomes official ...
Ultimately, you've got to choose your battles. I don't think this would be a good battle to choose ...
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