Why have you killed off Helicams in Australia

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: After reading many of the posts in this forum and seeing what you guys have been up to with CASA and UAV regulations I am in shock. : What kind of madness has overcome everyone in here and caused them to blabber on to CASA about non existant UAV industries in Aus and non existant commercial UAV under 100 grams. : Where do I begin. : There are so many absurdities injected into this UAV debate its insane. : UAV in populated areas, never, ever, ever will it occur in Australia. : Forget it, it will never happen for simple reasons you all seem to have overlooked in your rush to make all the things you see on TV into reality. : The result of all your theory and postulating about the future has caused CASA to be of the mistaken belief that there is a UAV industry here in Aus, or that there will be. : As a result of the very few who had Helicams here, none of which can operate in the Metro area and limited to line of sight use, are now effectively prohibited from reciving any payment whatsoever or CASA requires a full operating certificate to be gainied. : Certification that is vast and time consuming not to mention compliance costs of thousands. : Thousands that Helicams simply do not support in returns of profit made. : If they did make a retrun to justify the costs of OC there would be more than 1 certified OC holder with a Helicam. : Clearly setting the bar way too high for the few that perform inert activities compared to sporting fliers so that all but one operator in the last year has gained certification, the rest gave it up. : I would be one of the few who continue to do it as a recreation, I had some potential to make some money of some aerial photo's that is suffice to help with developing a real UAV that one day in future "may" be capable of making profits and paying taxes but is not yet for a host of other reasons. : The only other real UAV we have that operates out of line of sight and should be the only type of UAV requiring OC to fly is Aerosonde, CASA cant quote one other. : All you lot have done is killed off the landscape for anyone who did have a line of sight Helicam UAV with potential, all to selfishly satisfy your yearning for recognition in your pet project with some regulations in place to wear like a badge.. : Regulations none of you are effected by of course. : And who paid for the regulations to be put in place? : Why the mug tax payer of course. : Its about time they knew where these taxes where wasted. : If I am going to be leveled by a trucks load of paper work for a flying toy with a camera making pocket money, I fully intend to do my best to pour large amounts of cold water on UAV heads and all the trouble they have brought others and myself trying to run real aerial platforms, not imaginary ones in your head. : The few who have UAV have ensured they dont have to share the landscape with anyone else. : Now we see a year later that didnt work and they blew large sums on an OC they wont see for a long time. : Here is a Remote Aerial Video and Photography forum. : www.runryder.com : Go read it and see the damage youve done to UAV's in Aus. : Australia is now the only place in the world that no reward can be paid for Helicams without an expensive OC regime. : We are the laughing stock other nations for the regulations madness you lot are responsible for. : Thanks for nothing.

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