Romonaga
Well-Known Member
Many of these "Private Flights are not just Transportation" If it was it would have been lumped under commercial. The point I was making is even with heavy restrictions, and training, we still live with danger. I personally accept the risks, when I see one of these "private operators" flying over populated areas with a device that could fail or crash if they did something silly.Firstly - all your examples are transportation, not hobby, and, even if they were considered hobby, almost entirely endangered the participants, not others. That's false equivalence. Secondly - general aviation is heavily regulated as you point out, in contrast to hobby sUAS which is barely regulated at all - no training required, no test to pass, and very limited ways to enforce rules with no tracking. And, to cap all that, zero direct risk to the hobbyists themselves, unless they manage to crash it into themselves, which promotes exactly the kind of recklessness that we see here. At least private pilots have a very personal stake in the outcome of their flights.
And in what way was I being argumentative? I was responding to what I regard as a flawed and untenable position, and was met with inapplicable generalities. And in terms of people minimizing this issue, the poster that I was responding to, who wrote "Hobbyist hurt, and kill people every day. Its a fact of life and we live with it.", was doing what, exactly, if not attempting to minimize it?
Again, I am all for regulations, I am all for height restrictions, I am even for distance restrictions without training. I am all for geo-fencing as well. What I do not want to see is restriction put into place that hamper our ability to safely enjoy this hobby.