Model aircraft pilots angry over drone laws

[doubletopParticipant @doubletop]

We are having a similar debate here in NZ following the Christchurch tragedy. The government quickly introduced a ban on automatic weapons and will introduce gun registration. The pro-gun lobby trotted out similar arguments about criminalising law abiding people and suggested criminals wouldn’t bother handing in their weapons or registering them.

Surely the point is that everybody that registers would potentially be off the list of suspects and the authorities will only have to spend their time dealing with the small percentage that don’t comply with the regulations.

Those of us with steam engines join a club and pay subs so we can get our boilers tested and approved for public use. We do it because we have to if we want to be safe and be insured to use them in public. Surely its much the same arguments for model aircraft?

Pete

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Members of model aircraft clubs pay a membership fee, and as members have training classes, and are schooled up on CAA regs covering their sport. There is quite a bit on "drones" in the Wings over New Zealand web site, I tghink it's in the NZ Civil aviation section.

I know that there are some model aircraft in the Christchurch club that could in the wrong hands do major damage.

Ian S C

[vic francisParticipant @vicfrancis]

Its typical bureacracy of this Country; knee jerk reaction; I guess they must be seen to be doing something… hence these ill thought out solutions… another example is Defra wanting to ban the use of household coal… as reported on the bbc; heritage railways are up in arms… would they then have to import it?? … or shut up… the worst thing with bureaucracy is ; their own failure to admit they are wrong….

vic

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