The hobby is done mate Its just on the FAA's time table. The only way to adjust that course is to go to our representatives and put pressure on them to speak up for us to save their own butts come November election time. The FAA will not even bother with most of our pleas. they have already shown their stripes by back dooring a proposal that would never pass on its on merit. They have already made promises of keeping the hobby in tact then changed up the proposals to phase it out over time. they know they have full control and are already bought and paid for. the only way to stop that is to go thru congress and dispute the legality not only of the proposals but how they were passed into law by circumventing normal procedures.
We, Flite Test, the AMA and any other groups can petition and write up support pleas to get our hobby back and it will do nothing if we aim at the FAA. We have to go after our representatives in the house and senate if we have any chance of stopping this. Once its all in place getting it repealed will be even harder
So Bill, are you going to go the route of putting your equipment up for auction now, or wait until the hobby's good and dead and there's no value in it? LOL j/k
To some extent, I feel like there's a lot of noise being made over the "death" of the hobby when we have proposed rules that aren't even in effect yet. It's a lot like the people who decried the death of the hobby when transmitters went from 72 mhz to 2.4 ghz and people were having to swap out to new receivers to work with the new transmitters, etc.
I'm trying to be optimistic and think that it's still going to continue on. The hobby's never going to be completely dead; there will still be people flying indoors in gyms and closed stadiums and auditoriums. Not a single one of those proposed rules would prevent that from happening; that's indoors and out of the FAA's jurisdiction. I know, extreme, and there are a lot of people that won't do it at all, but flying could still happen.