From our web site to your hard drive, here is the July edition of the Flightline newsletter.
Grab it from the usual spot, here: Flightline page
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Some of you may have noticed on June 8th the web site was temporarily down. This was in preparation to move it to a new provider that, fingers crossed, is a bit more stable than the last one.
As a result, some web page functions, downloads, images and other things may be missing or broken. We are going through the entire site and will fix things as we find them. However, if you find something that needs a correction earlier, please send us an email using the Contact Us page and we’ll see if we can get to it sooner.
Thanks for your patience.
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June Flightline Available
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Just released to the web is the June 2011 Flightline. Go grab your copy from the Flightline page that can be found at this link.
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In what is probably the first real justification for FAA regulation of model aircraft activities, the National Transportation Safety Board has found that the RC pilot is at fault for the collision at a flying event in Colorado in August 2010. This marks the first time (that I’ve seen) the NTSB and FAA have publicly admonished the RC community for using the National Airspace and causing damage.
It is difficult to say whether this will set precedent with the FAA and NTSB, but I believe this is the first concrete step in bringing the full weight of federal regulations into the RC community. This is not a good thing for the hobby, but as this event showed just one person doing something anywhere with an RC craft in the NAS is likely to draw attention from regulators. We will have to wait until the summer of 2011 before we find out the full impact of this incident and the FAA’s decision on whether to regulate and how much the RC community.
Full details of the NTSB report can be found here.
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Now available in the newsletter section of the site is the May edition of the Flightline. Go grab a copy to see what the latest club news is for this month.
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The President will be in and around the Bay Area again this week and unfortunately that means no R/C flights. The AMA web site has the full details, but like before it prevents just about everyone trying to fly model aircraft from flying anywhere within a 30 mile radius of the visit sites, which span the majority of the North and South Bay cities.
For more information on these flight restrictions, please visit the AMA web site:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/membership/clubs/notams.aspx
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With absolutely no fooling, the April 2011 edition of the Flightline newsletter is now posted on this web site and available for download. You can find the latest edition on this page:
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NTSB releases report on 2010 R/C vs Full Scale incident
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In what will certainly be viewed as grounds for future FAA enforcement action, the NTSB has released their factual report of the incidents surrounding a Saturday, August 14, 2010 in Brighton, CO accident between a Shpakow SA 750 bi-plane and an AJ Slick R/C 3D plane. You can read all the details, the AMA’s input and see some aviation commentary here:
Aero-News: NTSB Releases Factual Report On Biplane Collision With Large RC Aircraft
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A new month brings a new Flightline. Go grab a copy from the Flightline download page today.
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Due to some security upgrades, the old web site look would not work correctly any longer. The current blue theme works well with the new site software and should serve as a stable platform for the near future.
Every part of the site is in the same place as before, but now things look a little different. Take a look around and get familiar with the new styles and menus and see what you think.
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