| > But I can fly my park flyer across the street from your big expensive | > plane:) | | I guess that might depend on how much you would like to spend in | legal fees.
How so?
I assume you're worried about frequency control?
If so, you don't have any special rights to a given R/C frequency, even if you're in a club, even if the club is AMA sanctioned. If somebody is flying next door, you'll have to share.
The FCC has allocated those frequencies with the understanding that you must accept any interference that you may receive -- and that includes interference from other fliers. I can dig up the exact reference if needed.
If you use the ham bands, things are a bit different, but still, you have no more right to a specific frequency than anybody else.
The AMA rules say that you agree not to fly within 3 miles of an established flying field without a frequency control agreement in place -- which is prudent -- but it's not binding upon anybody who is not an AMA member. And at some level, walking over to the AMA field and putting a note on the frequency control board that says `I'm flying on channel 35 across the street -- Doug, 3:45pm, 07/19' would qualify as at least an attempt at a frequency control agreement.
As for the legal fees, I guess if you and a park flier crashed each other's planes, you could both sue each other. And I'd expect both cases to be thrown out, because you have no right to use a given frequency. Unless local laws prohibit R/C flying at all outside the AMA field, of course.
Of course, if you turned on on channel 35 at the AMA field, knowing full well that somebody was using it at the field across the street (especially if they made an effort to make SURE the AMA field knew), you might very well find yourself being the target of a suit -- and that one might not be thrown out so quickly, since it was done intentionally.