You're presenting an FAA document from 2012.
Well... it's 2016.
No, I don't have an AK-50 - I don't know what one is or even if it exists - but I have plenty of everything else. No one is more vigilant than I at monitoring threats to the Bill of Rights specifically the Second Amendment,
I grew up flying absolutely without abandon. I clearly remember firing up my first control -line PT-19 in 1968 with my big brother making sure the .049 engine didn't take any fingers off. I simply never stopped flying, joined the AMA at an absurdly young age, applied for my student pilot ticket exactly eight hours after I turned 14, and built the very first RC four-channel plane in my club.
You might say, I guess, I know my way around rules and regulations, Nowhere in this thread do I recall reading that flight over 400 feet was illegal.
The vast majority of flyers feel it's stupid, though.
Thanks to mental midgets misusing their drones almost every model aircraft in the United States is now federally regulated, if the owner is following the law and registering himself. It's no longer 2012.
There is a built-in slackness to the new regulations, it seems. There exists room for user interpretation and one hopes adaptation. Since before the late drone mishap phenomenon there has existed no specific need to regulate our craft, or to mandate (by law) flight under 400 feet. Thankfully there still isn't a mandate, but a very strong and obvious suggestion.
Can you take a hint? Can I? Can everyone else flying drones or anything else?
You know, I believe the overwhelming number of fliers can. I'd wager at least 95% of our aircraft are being flown safely and responsibly.
Unfortunately the will always be that five percenter who thinks it's ok just to bend those rules a little teeny bit. And a bit more. And.... oh no, caught! Look at that moron, who would do something that stupid? Film at 11, lawmakers promise to address the issue of model aircraft dangers and their impact on the health care industry!
Sigh and good grief.
You can't fix stupid.