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Old 30th Mar 2019, 12:43
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Desert Flower
 
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Originally Posted by tail wheel
Good luck with that!

My Phantom IV drone weighs 1.350 kg. I suspect the 250 g weight limit starts around $60 at a Hobby Shop! R/C model aircraft will be sucked into the same license category.

This will be about as successful as the law many years ago (early 1970s??) that CB radio (27 Mhz - before VHF CB) operators must obtain an operator's license. It was legal to own a CB radio without a license, but the fine was $10,000 to operate one on HF without a License.

One of our own PPRuNe users of note was importing shipping containers of the things!

What a stunning failure that was, whilst licensed amateur radio operators were being hammered for compliance with regulations.
Never heard of VHF CB. I think you mean UHF. And when I first started out with 27Mhz CB's in the early 70's it was necessary to have a license.

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