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[Celwin]

Just finished my CASA consultation survey. Having completed it and by reading all the information within the survey, it looks like it might be a good thing for aeromodelling as a whole. It certainly won't affect the majority of us flying at formal club fields. Registering as a field could be problematic for groups using, for example, a slope near a beach. Henry Joppic Park, the Yangan cricket oval and perhaps the stanthorpe field could be an issue... Barclay field won't be a problem. It's ours and isn't a public space. The wording says 'exclude 3rd parties' or something like that.

CASA isn't going to make a fortune out of it, unlike what I wrote last night. The vast majority of MAAA members won't need to register.

$20 a year and re-accreditation every 3 years is a small price for me (and maybe Dennis) to pay for the privilege of flying at home.
I think that it's the only way CASA would be able to educate 99% of drone and FPV users so that they have some sort of control over illegal and dangerous use of radio controlled aircraft. It may put an end to aeromodellers getting a bad name or copping flack because of a few drones in the state doing the wrong thing in the wrong place.