<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Bob--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Wonderful post, plus what Gary and others have said about why we don't do politics here.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I don't like big spiders and now I have a second good reason never to go to AZ.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Bob Spidell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank">bspidell@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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That's the problem with being a johnny-come-lately. I'm 62, a
fourth-generation Californian and have lived my entire life here,
and I certainly don't feel as threatened as you do (though I've
noticed that a lot of people tend to get paranoid as they get
older). Yes, California is getting crowded because just about
everybody in the world, it seems, wants to live here. The people
freezing their asses off back east will likely give it some thought
when they hear about our recent 70deg+ weather; not to mention the
relative abundance of jobs--including yours--being created in spite
of our nazi-communist-facist-socialist government.<br>
<br>
Your claim that the FAA "wants to treat my 7 pound model airplane
that does not fly out of my sight or place anyone or anything in
danger like all aircraft and make me be licensed to fly it. of
course the license is not free" is factually incorrect. The truth
is here: <a href="https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/" target="_blank">https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/</a> <br>
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It took all of 10 seconds of internet searching to find this,
although I was probably already more informed about this than you
ever will be because I'm a private pilot and have been following
this topic in the news and aviation publications for quite a while.
Yes, pilots really are concerned about this as there have already
been several reported instances of 'near misses' with both
commercial and general aviation aircraft. And, your 7lb RC aircraft
could do significant damage--possibly even cause a crash (birds have
brought down aircraft, see
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549</a>)--to a light
aircraft traveling at speeds in excess of 100MPH, and the airlines
are rightfully concerned about someone flying one of the larger
drones into an airliner full of passengers (don't think it could
happen? Ever hear about the idiots pointing lasers at aircraft?).
<br>
<br>
California is such a terrible place for RC aircraft enthusiasts they
build special 'airports'--there's one in nearby Livermore--so that
the RC people have their own runway, airspace and parking to indulge
their hobby. At the park I often run at--Rancho San Antonio in Los
Altos--the RC people had their own area and there were some
conflicts so the terrible California people said "Hey, let's fence
off part of the park for the RC aircraft people and tell others to
stay the hell away from it." Problem solved. And, your attempt to
conflate a federal agency, the FAA--ever ask yourself what the big
'F' stands for?--with the state of California get's an 'A' for
creativity, but an 'F' for veracity. Side note: the FAA rules seem
onerous at times--the FAR, the book of regulations for pilots, is
2-3 inches thick of fine print--but I respect them because most were
written because somebody--often, a lot of somebodies--died. The FAA
is indeed struggling with this, as they are trying to balance the
'rights' of the RC/drone people with the rights of everybody else.<br>
<br>
I could go on, but I'm probably pushing the limit on message size,
but I'll say one more thing: Apparently, you moved to California in
'71 because California afforded you an opportunity for a good
career; a career that has done so well for you that you are now able
to contemplate retirement. Yet you can't resist taking a swipe at
the very state that afforded you this opportunity and enabled you to
prosper.<br>
<br>
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Bob<br>
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<div>On 2/13/2016 10:22 PM, Michael MacLean
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<div dir="ltr">I moved
here in 1971. It was a very different place back then. Not as
crowded and not as regulated in all aspects of life. These
days you can't keep up with all the nanny state laws being
passed every year. You can be a law abiding citizen one day
and a potential felon the next. Every year brings more
regulations and control over almost everything you do. Let's
not get started on the gun control issue. Now they can take
all your firearms with no crime having been committed. All
someone has to do is convince a judge you MIGHT do something
to yourself or someone else. If that is not the thought
police, I don't know what is. Yes, you don't have to smog a
car made before 1975, but every year some lame brain democrat
will introduce a bill to make ALL cars have to undergo smog
either retro actively or be destroyed even though they do not
contribute even 1 percent of the smog to California. That
bimbo from the San Francisco are Fran Pavley tried to get all
motorcycles have to undergo smog tests retroactively back many
years over a certain engine size. Never mind motorcycles are
not ridden as much or as often as automobiles or are a mall
percentage of all vehicles on the road. Luckily it was
defeated. It all started going down hill when the legislature
in California went for being is session for six months out of
the year to year round. Yes Bob I do feel free to leave this
quagmire of rules and control of personal liberties. Every one
of my hobbies I will pursue when I retire is now being
controlled by either the state of California or as in my radio
control hobby the federal government being the FAA in
particular. The FAA wants to treat my 7 pound model airplane
that does not fly out of my sight or place anyone or anything
in danger like all aircraft and make me be licensed to fly it.
of course the license is not free. You have to pay for the
government to control you. I retire from the railroad at the
end of the year and am seriously eyeing Arizona as a
retirement destination. At least there I don't worry about
an new firearm law being passed every 5 minutes.</div>
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