arrcomm1
Heliman
Location: Newport, NC - USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Flying in "Public Park" legal...It all depends on the guidelines set down in the law for that town.
As far as the person that said their council member says the city council "owned" the park..NOT. No city council members "pitch-in" their money and go to a Realtor and buy some property, then turn around and call it a "public park". Individual purchase or group purchase of real estate is defined as "Private", therefor the Public Park is not owned by any town or city council. Their money did or does not buy parks, the tax-payers purchase it thru the city or town treasury.
So the fellow that says his city council owns his park, I say, go talk to the County Tax Clerk and see for yourself you will see that council member needs to be "enlightened".
I have flown in vacant ball fields. No problem, no spotter, no people. It was 5AM - 7AM. Not too many people standing around looking for something to do or kids out to ride bikes over your "bird".
I have flown my EFlight MCX in a Mall and in air terminals while waiting for my own planes to arrive. Draw quite the crowds. Great little item to get people interested. Very light, 1 oz. able to turn on a dime. very responsive..if you swap out their transmitter for a DX 6 or 7. I can hover it for minutes at a time and a few people have held out their hands for me to land on. 
Now that chopper is great for crowded areas like parks and wont hurt a fly, well maybe a fly.
A 600 at a park with no spotter, eh,,, I would have wanted a spotter and at least flown on the other side of some sort of barrier. It would have probably prevented a bike from trashing the chopper. Only thing to worry about then is the child running up and grabbing it, throwing it down, stomping it, and kicking it away as you stood in shock!! But that is why you should fly with a friend as spotter, it prevents "accidents"  like that.
Look up the town ordinances before flying at a public park. |
