| Ed...Same thing has happened in Ham Radio.....for years the Code test | kept out the "riff-raff" and those just wanting to "good buddy" you to | death. Look for the AMA to be next.
Did you really mean to say AMA? There's no qualifications for joining the AMA, beyond sending them money and some paperwork. As far as I know, this has always been the case.
People have always been able to fly R/C without knowing anything about building -- you just buy somebody else's used planes. Perhaps it was harder back when radios and planes were more rough around the edges but you could still do it. And now, well, you can buy a plane, throw it on the charger and fly it in a few minutes. I don't see it getting too much easier than it is now, except that the RTF electrics may start coming with LiPos, already charged ...
And as far as ham radio goes, even the no-code technician test, as easy as it is, keeps the `riff-raff out' too. And the code test, as slow as it is, keeps the `riff-raff' out of HF. At least for now.
And I'm not sure I understand the problem with `good buddy'. If you don't want to talk to somebody on ham radio, don't. Why would you need the FCC to keep them out for you?
(Though I've certainly heard lots of hams whine about CBers. If anybody says 10-4 or `my handle is ...' many hams go nuts. Some even act like the people using CB lingo are breaking the law, even though they have ham licenses and are IDing themselves as needed, not using profanity, etc.)
It's sort of pathetic, actually. I've heard of people talking in a ham radio net, and they say 10-4 or something similar, and then they get an `anonymous' email a day later that tells them to go back to CB or something.
I guess I see the same thing in R/C, where glow fliers look down on electric fliers, vice versa, pattern fliers look down on 3D fliers, glider fliers look down on any sort of powered flight (especially on glow/gas), everybody looks down on R/C car drivers ...