This activity has given me the freedom to experience piloting without the burden of having to have a real plane. I enjoy flying and recording my flights for others to enjoy and to experience the feeling of being a bird. This hobby has taught me about aviation and I took the part 107 and passed.
Dirk Van Zante (dvan*@*ail.com) Read More »
I fly both commercially for surveying and environmental monitoring as well as recreational FPV. My commercial drones are absolutely amazing tools that allow me to collect survey data, remote sensing data, and conduct thermal wildlife surveys. From a purely scientific perspective this allows me to do a much better job at these scopes of work
Chris Wellwood (cwel*@*ail.com) Read More »
RC Aircraft is my predominant hobby and the “drone” UAV does not interest me at all. My opinion is that they do require any skill and most anybody can fly many of them. The electronic “advances” that allow them to operate is probably the worst thing ever to happen to the traditional modeling flying hobby.
Russell Pond (russ*@*ast.net) Read More »
My son and I enjoy building model aircraft from scratch because of the affordability and fun factor. We can build all sorts of fun aircraft and give it a try outside. These additional government requirements I believe are well intentioned but are ultimately detrimental to hobbyists. If a company (DJI for example) wants to implement
Neil Bergstedt (neil*@*msn.com) Read More »
Flying fpv multirotor aircraft to me is more than a hobby. It’s a freedom of expression, an art, through part 107 it’s an occupation, but most importantly it’s a lifestyle. A lot of us (more than you know) have taken up fpv as a way of life. It is it’s own culture. It brings people
Sir_Braap _a_lot (braa*@*ail.com) Read More »
I’m a retiree and am fairly new to the hobby for recreation purposes. I like to challenge myself to learn new things, and becoming a hobby pilot has been beneficial to my quality of life. I like to experiment with rc plane building and fly these planes. I fly on flying fields and in unpopulated
Rich Anderson (rcah*@*dee.net) Read More »
I think that model aviation enthusiasts have proven to be a pretty responsible group of people. I’ve been in the hobby since the 1970’s and I feel that this hobby incorporates science, creativity, problem solving, adventure, and good fellowship. I do think that people who fly past line of visual sight or drones that are
Sam Sorem (ssor*@*ail.com) Read More »
This is part of my undergrad education as an aerospace engineer. Restrictions are uninformed about the state of the hobby and are frankly uncalled for.
Spencer Freeman (safr*@*csu.edu) Read More »
I am a recreational flyer that has always loved photography. No with the drones I can get completely new perspectives on some of the things I loved to photograph most. i would love to be able to share this hobby with my son when he gets older but i am concerned that if these regulations
I’ve just entered the FPV community in the past year but have been in and out of the scale airplane community for the past several years. I love anything to do with flying mechanisms but do not have the financials to become an actual Pilot but flying FPV is the closest thing to achieve this.
Billy (weba*@*ail.com) Read More »
it’s already expensive. but it’s fun to fly planes and I think it will hurt us in the long run.
Jason Goranson (Gora*@*nts.org) Read More »
I am both a recreational and part 107 pilot. I believe it regulation, education, and responsibility. However, I also believe in reasonable burdens on small-scale systems where additional hardware or site restrictions would affect everything from flight characteristics to home-built and select manufacturer lock-outs which would make the hobby infeasible and make the industry less
Jacob Baron (jaco*@*ies.com) Read More »