{"id":2910,"date":"2016-04-05T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:06:24","slug":"tested-com-rc-flying-and-the-law-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2016\/04\/05\/tested-com-rc-flying-and-the-law-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tested.com:  RC Flying and the Law in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Dunn shares how 2016 is going to be a pivotal year for our hobby in his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tested.com\/tech\/566982-rc-flying-and-law-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tested.com article<\/a>.  The current situation is still very fluid as regulations are still being hashed out. The article discusses the community-based organization model, altitude limits, trends in retail, and how some proposed regulations &#8220;&#8230; potentially scares away people interested in the hobby.&#8221;  As Dunn suggests, be proactive by monitoring proposed legislation and contact your elected representatives.  The AMA is actively involved in the regulation process and may officially mobilize membership in a Congressional letter writing campaign soon.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Tested.com article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tested.com\/tech\/566982-rc-flying-and-law-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tested.com\/tech\/566982-rc-flying-and-law-2016\/<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/tested.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nTested.com photo and caption: EDUCATING NEW PILOTS IS VITAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE HOBBY. IT IS A BURDEN BEST HANDLED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Dunn shares how 2016 is going to be a pivotal year for our hobby in his latest Tested.com article. The current situation is still very fluid as regulations are still being hashed out. The article discusses the community-based organization model, altitude limits, trends in retail, and how some proposed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-faa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}