Attn: Aircraft Modelers in Jacksonville FL

| > I don't park my models outside of the house. How else would it affect | > models? | | Operation is also prohibited.

Repair is also prohibited. Even indoors.

You can store them indoors, but can't repair them there. So that hole you poked in the monocote? Better not fix it at home, or the police will come and arrest you!

Sure you can trust the government - just ask any Indian. :-)

Red S

"> I'll have to give you this point. Someone would complain if they were aware

All of this makes me wonder who pissed in whose Wheaties?

Ed Cregger

"Ed Cregger" wrote

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?

All you have to do, is do some goggling in rec.aviation.homebuilt and read the threads about it, and it will quickly become apparent.

It only takes one neighbor who is touchy, and another (in a really tightly packed older neighborhood) who continues as he wishes, with little regard for the other's feelings, and you have a problem.

Add a bit of shouting, and name calling, and then some foul language directed in the direction of powers-that-be, and the ones with the powers wield their power, swiftly, and absolutely.

The fear in the homebuilding community is now that there is a law on the books in one big city, others will be soon to follow in other big cities - all supported on precedence.

-- Jim in NC

| You shouldn't be test running your engines in a close neighborhood anyway! | Go to the field to do it!

Yes, but the law prohibits more than that.

You broke your prop? Well, you can't replace it at home, because that would be `repairing your aircraft' which is explicitly prohibited by that legislation.

Personally, when I went to the council meeting, I'd bring a paper airplane and some tape. Then when talking to the council, I'd rip my airplane, and then fix it with some tape. Then I'd explain how the law explicitly makes that illegal in my own home ...

It's a stupid law. It would still be stupid if it only applied to human-carrying airplanes, but it's exceedingly stupid as written.

Personally, I do occasionally run my engines at home to test them -- they're not really louder than a lawn mower, and I don't run them for that long. (Break-ins are done at the field.) Electrics I'll run _inside_ the house, much to my wife's dismay when they're for some screaming high-performance plane. The kids like it, though. The cat, not so much!

Sort of makes one wonder where the AMA is in all this. Or the AOPA. Or the EAA. Or any of the other avaiation related organizations. This is the way real rights of all are abused and lost. I suspect that my club lost two fields a couple of years ago due to the bad actions of a couple of folks that painted the entire hobby with a very black brush. Anyone got any serious ideas about how to change bad images? This might spread...

"Six_O'Clock_High" >

As long as modelers depend up the kindness of others to provide them with a flying field, this will be a problem. When modelers have enough interest to join together and to buy their own property, they will have enough clout to forestall many pieces of bad legislation and not one second before. In this capitalist America, money talks.

Ed Cregger