Jim, I've seen this site before. Projects like this are the reason that the FAA wants to regulate UAVs (and RC aircraft) flying under autopilot or video downlink. This case is specifically mentioned when they talk about having to control any aircraft in "their" airspace. It doesn't apply to RC until you get above 400', then you're in their space again. They also regularly use the example of a full scale helicopter flying under an RC trainer with a video downlink under it. The helicopter never saw the RC plane as it passed ~100' below it. Unfortunately this kind of story constantly pops up on the internet giving the feds more ammunition to make stricter regs with.
Luckily the FAA isn't that concerned with typical RC flying, only with vision enhanced systems or autonomous systems. Happy flying, Jim www.jtmodels.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
