I was lying airplane models near by an airport in Budapest, Hungary -- not _that_ near though. And I had loads of problems with the transponders, they made such a big noise that sometimes it was very hard to keep the plane in the air due to loss of signal. (That was one of the reason I started to make a failsafe device with digital filters, and that's why I started up with the PIC). So it was double crazy to fly that model that close... Tamas On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Alan B. Pearce wrote: > >> The guy flying the R/C plane so close to an airport is an idiot. > > Family friends, when I was a small child, had a 'beach house' near a > small provincial airport that had very little activity. During the summer > holidays they would stay at the beach house, and one of the activities they > got up to was to fly a box kite on from the sand dunes at the end of the > airport. If they got it too high, or some airport activity was about to > happen, then someone on the airport staff would come driving around the > perimeter to tell them off. AIUI they got to a point where they scampered > promptly when they saw the airport vehicle move ... > > ... > >Being that Australia has banned guns and lasers, I guess model airplanes > >are next. > > One of my recent colleagues here in the UK is a paraglider. Apparently the > UK was attempting to enforce some sort of rule whereby every paraglider, > along with every other form of flying object (not sure that it extended to > model RC aircraft) had to have some sort of position and IFF beacon on it. > The extra weight that they would have needed to carry on a paraglider would > have made it prohibitive, apart from the cost. > > The way he explained the proposed regulation to me suggested that there > were > moves afoot to have unmanned autonomous drones flying wherever they wanted > ... > > I got the impression that the relevant authorities were told to 'go get > stuffed' by the combined paraglider/microlight/etc organisations as what > they were proposing was impractical, and why they wanted to do it was > unrealistic. I think some of these clubs also had a bunch of guys who were > able to tear to shreds the figures that were being given as requirements - > it seemed that whoever thought the scheme up had no real experience of what > was required. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.mcuhobby.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist