Good luck on getting the NPS to rewrite the rules to allow the usage of RC craft in the parks again. Geocaching/Terracaching/Letterboxing is a minimally invasive activity but a few jerks ruined it for others so the activity is banned from all NPS lands. Delaware State Parks allow it with approval by the land managers.
Sorry to be a negative nelly but it seems all too often the bad apples ruin it for others. I for one wouldn't mind a system like Amateur Radio Operators, you need to be licensed to even purchase the equipment. Or like non USA countries are doing.. a licensing system, or a Parent-Child type of system like a Realtor Broker-Agent agreement. You get a license (the child) but you have to be covered by a company or something (the parent). That seems to cut down on some of the jerks.
As I posted elsewhere, Delaware State Parks ban all RC craft currently, #15 specifically rule 15.2, & only in allowed areas. Well guess what, I contacted a couple of the parks I was going to visit this weekend & they have no allowed areas,
at all.
http://www.destateparks.com/rules/
And as for flying on the edges, sorry not me. I really find these attitudes funny as all get.. "Lets go do something we're not supposed too because its actually skirting the edge of the law. But we'll piss & moan when we get our butts handed to us & threaten lawsuits when we don't get our way
In Dewey Beach DE there is a butthurt jerk who was told he couldn't build a building over the towns height requirements so he got all baby whiney & sued the town, a lil beach town & he has deep pockets (hes a flipping lawyer from DC area no less) so the town couldn't afford it & he like a lil b baby got his way. Now we have a eyesore building that's part hotel part condos for more b babies to summer in from DC, B-More & such.
And the whining that the FAA doesn't have the authority to do what they are doing? Its the flipping govt people, if you haven't learned yet that the govt can pretty much do what they want then you either young or naïve. Look at what they have banned on "Behalf of the peoples safety" & what they want to ban "for our own good".
This is going to get good. :roll: