Honestly I am not sure as this is the first one I've been to. Some of the footage was recorded opening day (Wed) and during the evening when the event was closing down for the day. Staff/volunteers there said it actually gets more crowded and crazy on Fri/Sat.

Reality is FT suffered because of their lack of stance against the FAA like the other CBO's especially the AMA who sold the entire RC Aviation Hobby out and joined forces with the CDA ( Commercial Drone Alliance) to push RID and to try and Force club/CBO membership only flying...FTCA tried to be a buddy so they could continue to help people get into the hobby BUT because of regulation and their lack of that stance against the new regs/rules chose to go along with the AMA and their suggested guides concerning the Hobby. They also bought in Dave Messina of the FPVFC who has sat with the FAA/Regulators and also refused to stand up and chose to bow down and has bought in the sell out agenda. People do not like their rights and freedoms taken away or restricted and they do not like those who refuse to even try and stand up but chose for a status/position to simply go along. None of them backed Brennan/RDQ in their law suit with the FAA and instead of pushing back on the FAA when in every meeting the FAA told them ( and you can listen to the FPVFC's videos ) to know they EXCLUDED the recreational side of the hobby completely. The CBO FRIA first campaign they all pushed only hurt the community it did not help it at all and yes many have simply stepped away from the hobby completely. Being forced to be tracked and your info accessed by the public and paying Huge $$'s to be able to fly outside a FRIA and then forced to pay for tests/ CBO memberships and travel etc to get to a FRIA in this economy has simply decimated the Hobby and as you see even Flite Fest is suffering, but they bought that in themselves as have the AMA and the others. And when the NETWORK RID comes online in a few years ( and yes it is already being established ) even the FRIA's will be forced to have some sort of base Network RID because the CDA stated at the FAA Reauth. they had to have complete dominance of the 400 ft AGL to the surface everywhere to operate their UTM and they had to KNOW where everything else was operated at all times and Congress who was Bought agreed and that means in the future even sub 250 will have to have some sort of Network ID , the hobby is near its end as we all have known it for so many decades all because those that had a seat with the FAA refused to stand up !!!

Geez I sure hope the are operating in a FRIA 😬 or have a remote ID module in everything weighing even 0.1 over 250 grams

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