Originally Posted By: Johnny2Bad
Originally Posted By: JetStar
Great fun, surprisingly the website actually worked.
I don't think that we had a problem in this country with RC model aircraft until you could walk in to Best Buy as an example, and walk out with a 5 pound quad copter and an hour later be at 1000 feet with little or no skill.
There is never a problem with anything until the product becomes popular amongst the clueless who can walk into a retail store that previously never sold such a product (Best Buy is NOT a Hobby Store) and be an owner, but just as clueless, an hour later.
Nor do lawmakers make laws about products that the clueless do not buy, until the clueless start buying them, revealing the idiot's guide to operation and abuse of the rest of humanity, to the rest of humanity, who (naturally) complain.
I agree, the same thing has happened with other things as well, when they go mainstream, things go bad. Some of this is the fault of the manufacturers themselves and the ever present pursuit of profit growth. I work in the Aerospace industry so I'm well aware of the damage resulting from impacting one of these things. Back when I started this hobby, you really had to want to do it. Building your own plane, leaning how to fly it, fixing it when you crashed. It took months for that first flight. Luckily I fly off of private land and don't have to deal with the idiot general public. I think some of this is the media drumming up scary news. Even the FAA's own report on near misses was full of [censored].
We'll see how this goes.
Now if we can just get transponders fitted to birds!