Midair

thank you

It's a shame I was not able to reply to your answer directly on the thread in the forum with the comments
above...the thread I started seems to have been deleted now, for one reason or another.

I hope this message has gone some way to show you what the app is really about.

Have a great and safe flying day!

Kind regards,
Barry

The more RC pilots that come on-board with the app (over 14000 already worldwide), the more "fire-power"
the app has, against over-handed regulation of all of us traditional RC pilots - because it can and does show
transparency and gives high visbility on what we do as RC pilots, to the authorities (if necessary), and whomever
else may be interested - we have always kept these important parts of the app completely free to use, in the interests
of the RC pilot community at-large, in an effort to protect our much beloved hobby.

So there is "method in our madness"...hope you can see that?

The app is certainly not "USA centric", or "AMA centric"...it is global, and serves each country...it is in fact
already available in no less than 31 different languages and countries already.

Most clubs in Canada are already in the app...there may be a few that we have missed, but pilots
are free to add and maintain the data from within the app itself...(we don't own the data).

So yes, it is in fact important, very important, to start record keeping and "paperwork" as you say, by way of
the app...otherwise the shape and form of our much beloved hobby is going to change drastically
in the near-to-medium future! It's unfortunate, but unless we do this...flying RC planes is going
to be a very different ball-game in the future!

The app goes a long way to solving all the trials and tribulations of the MAAC and RC pilots in Canada.

We are working hard every day, for the past 3 years now, to ensure the app reaches its goals of making RC
pilots lives much easier and "free" (from over-handed regulation, so to speak)...at the cost of a small amount of
"administrative burden", as you call it.

We don't view it as a "burden", but more of a necessity, unless we would like to see our much beloved hobby
destroyed (in effect), over time.

We are by far out-numbered by drone pilots now...all over the world...by a very big margin - over
10 million hobbyist drones were shipped into the USA alone, last year.

We are in the "minority" now, as traditional RC pilots, and cannot "call the shots"
over them.

The app is a way for the traditional RC pilot world to arm themselves against
authorities pushing down too much (over?) regulation onto us traditional RC pilots - by
means of being open and transparent about what we do...what we fly...when we fly, and
where we fly...otherwise we are fighting a "losing battle", as it were.

We know that RC pilots in Canada are experiencing a lot of challenges at the moment, (as are many other
countries), as far as new over-handed regulation goes...we think, anyway...the app goes some way to helping that situation.

Hi Midair,

In response to your comment about the aeromura app:

Thanks for your feedback and you make some very valid comments.

On the contrary though, to the app being an "administative burden":

The entire reason we developed the app in the first place, is to bring
more transparency and visibility to what we as RC pilots do.

This is important, because with the advent of so many drones, the authorities
have been left with a "hot potato" in terms of how to manage and regulate it all,
and especially around safety issues when it comes to integrating with full-scale
aviation.

The "danger" to us then, as traditional RC pilots, is that we simply get "lumped together"
with un-desciplined/naieve drone hobbyist pilots, and ultimately get new rules
and laws pushed down on all of us, when we have traditionally been able to self-regulate
quite successfully over decades.

RPAS Wilco uses data from the current DAH, and current NAV CANADA publications to determine controlled airspace and proximity to aerodromes listed in the CFS. It is the only tool suitable for MAAC operations as it also looks up - above 400' for controlled airspace.

Randy