This hobby provides a valuable outlet for educators as well as hobbiest to enjoy a fun safe hobby. The current FAA proposed regulations will effectively place a choke hold on the hobby and make it cost prohibited for most pilots solely to serve the needs of the business community which is wrong.

It is an easy way for my family to spend time together. We already have to budget all expenses and an ID system will price is out of the game. I feel it will kill the RC industry all together.

With the current drafted intent of this proposal, I would be forced to quit the hobby. If intent was re-written that anything under 400′ ceiling could be kept unregulated or registered, and we can register FRIA zones without cost, that would be an acceptable “first step” in the direction of using regulation to keep UAS

Flying a model plane with a motor, receiver, and a battery is a simple as it should ever be. We are trying to make our aircrafts light and balanced not overloaded. Adding more electronics to broadcast will ruin this hobby. Please do not go through with this.

I get to enjoy flying my models very rarely. I was a member of the AMA, but let it lapse because I only get to fly a couple of times a year.

My interest in RC flying vehicles goes back about nine years when I got a toy-grade helicopter for Christmas. For some time, I was mainly interested in drones and helicopters, but about three years ago, a friend took me out to his flying field and gave me a demonstration of his RC airplane. From then

Iv’e been a flyer, builder of RC planes and now FPV Quad-copters for over 40yrs Even though I’m only 51. My father flew control line since before I was born. Flying has been a passion in my family father, brother and I for a very long time. For us all it very enjoyable to start

I’m a licensed pilot but no longer actively flying privately. Radio control flying as a hobby and to get grandchildren and neighbor kids interested. Hobby is great for kids to learn to build and repair things instead of just buying and throwing away once broken.

I have entered this hobby as an enthusiast. I find the hobby fascinating and the initial knowledge gap is gigantic. Adding significant restrictions in flying locations and hardware would have pushed me out of this hobby before I could have gotten into it. At that, I fly my own quads in parks consistently now. I

I’m a Part 107 licensed drone pilot. I earn income from selling my drone photography. I live in the American West and generally fly remote, unpopulated areas of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. I rarely have any data coverage where I’m flying. That’s my current situation. I’m also a licensed HAM radio operator —