Crawford Bros. Aeroplanes
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just a taste
I've said this before on the other FAA thread:
I got into rc so I could enjoy having at least one hobby nobody was trying to ban...
Yet here we are.
One thing I can say for certain having lived in California my entire life, when it comes to government overreach you kinda get used to it... maybe. But then again maybe not...
If possible we should organize some kind of protest, something I'm quickly gaining experience in with the current state of affairs here in California. Unfortunately it seems the only thing the government learned from the Civil Rights era is that protests can't work if you ignore them, which seems to be exactly what the FAA's doing.
I think the best thing we can do at this point is try to get the word out and get more people on our side, if it becomes a national issue than the FAA can't go behind everyone's back like this without looking shady.
Otherwise we just become sky pirates. I think less-than-legal flying may become the new 21st century art. Josh Bixler could become like a Mob Boss for underground flying. If this goes through, which it looks like it is, I'll try to form an underground flying group in the High Desert of SoCal. We have a flag and there will be cookies and probably also guns, since we're out there anyway. My Arrowhead is already prepared:
As someone else pointed out this is old news though. These companies had been chosen to design remote ID years ago, this email is just trying to make it look like progress has been made where none has. It's probably just to scare us.
I hate to say it but considering some other current events this might be the least of our concerns regarding the government and big business.
Cheers,