The thing I find overreaching is the LOS requirement, not for the phantom, but for FPV racing.
As a racer, that's something I never thought of.
It does, as a matter of course need an exemption.
If they understood the world of aerial photography drones and racing drones, they would realize that they are setting up a bunch of state crimes because racers will continue to race and fly through tunnels and areas that are emptied in stadiums and warehouses but it's perfectly safe as evidenced by years of racing with no injuries to speak of any real matter.
Who is lobbying on behalf of us, the business people, the hobbyists, etc? I know there will be some groups lobbying that just want to prevent government overreach but we need a lobby that knows all about drones.
I used to throw raves in the 90s in Florida (I went to the University of Florida GO GATORS!) and they introduced House Bill 1529 which was nicknamed the "rave bill" which made it so that a venue had to stop selling alcohol the moment it was no longer allowed to sell alcohol.
In the small town of Gainesville, FL where I lived I spear headed (at 19) the Gainesville Bar and Club Alliance and we as a group lobbied at the city council meetings and in Tallahassee (state capital where the bill was put together) and we managed to have Gainesville opt out of the bill.
My point is that lobbying and making your voice heard around these bills that are bills of passion can be talked down by the state and city and township level. The way it is supposed to work is the smaller the municipality, the stronger its ability to enact or opt out of state and federal laws (depending on what they are and how they are written).
That "Rave Bill" gave every city the option to opt out of it and some because it didn't want to put people on the street the second it was done selling alcohol, made a 1 hour space amendment while others like Miami just opted out of it because it's business is night life. It also had an exemption for parks who has attendance of over 20,000 visitors a day. I swear the lingo said that instead of just saying "not Disney".
I think we should form a lobby to go try and fix some of these issues.
You are right about the racing. People won't stop racing and every time we go through a tunnel or something, or around a corner where we can't see, LOS is gone. But isn't LOS already federal? Hmmm. Can't believe I never thought of that.
As a side note, after about a year of everyone in the central and northern part of the state starting throwing so many raves in Gainesville because we got them to opt out of it, on the next voting cycle (about a year) they gerrymandered the precincts to un-elect the council men that were basically for the transient student population and it was opted back in by the ultra-conservative static population.