lesterpk wrote:Beyond visual range isnt the issue with CAA. On the video (you now the one I'm talking about) he's reading out his height and quite clearly well above 400ft within 4km of an aerodrome without approval of the Director of CAA, hence breaking law 101.205 a 1 iii and possibly 101.207 by being more than 4km and 400ft at times without operating in a danger area or having a NOTAM.
Being BVR and not having a safety pilot on a buddy box is against MFNZ rules, not CAA.
I thought this was about crashing into a control tower? No?? How is it that when one thing is proven to be utter crap, out come the let's find another excuse police?
Oh he reads out his height. Was that another YouTube production? Because I saw on TV the other day that some bloke called Superman was flying around saving the world... Enough said?
I fly BVR all the time and so do thousands of pilots all over the world - it is only these silly old farts who decide that's not safe because we don't want to do it that cause these issues not the pilots who fly safely, in appropriate areas and with spotters all over that keep things under control.
How many injuries/deaths have been caused by FPV flights in a BVR sense? NONE! In fact most accidents involving FPV occur while both the pilot and spotter(s) are taking off or landing.
The military have UAVs that crash all the time (one recently in the US in a suburban area) and there's no model flying organisation jumping on them - why? - because the military would tell them to boot off!
The way to get things brought into the modern paradigm is to lead using example and sometimes that involves bending some rules or making productions and publishing them publicly to generate debate.
Also your comment flies in the face of the suggested issues here which is that the CAA has received complaints from an 'unknown' source and they reported this to MFNZ. MFNZ acted in concert with the local government and arbitrarily closed SWMAC down with no real proof of anything except what they say, which to date has been pretty much nothing!
This uproar is not about who did what to breach the rules, but about how certain bodies use their positions to impose rule on others without exercising due process and affording natural justice.
Your continued defence of these draconian practices ameliorates your position (as previously stated) and only substantiates my comments that you are an agent of these fellows, therefore commit your words to a letterhead or stop trying to fight their battles for them. They have an executive who still have done nothing to justify their position!!!
PS: Where is the 400' pole so we can ensure we stay under that height???
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