Statement
Regarding the Recent OFTA Incident
Date: 26 July, 2004
HKRCSS held a committee meeting on 25, July 2004 to have a lengthy
discussion on the recent OFTA incident. We
regret that the incident has happened and the
two r/c pilots were arrested to face with potential prosecution. We are
pleased to learn that the two accuses will be provided with free legal
assistance to deal with this ordeal. However, OFTA’s move to crackdown
on illegal use of r/c frequencies has a profound effect among the local
r/c communities and we are deeply concerned about this. HKRCSS, as an
organization representing a large number of r/c glider pilots, always
encourages r/c modelers to use legal frequencies, and, in this regard,
would write to OFTA immediately to express regret on the incidence. We
would state particularly our concern on the proliferation of illegal r/c
equipment, which is mainly due to insufficient number of legal r/c
frequencies available. We urge OFTA to drop the charge against the two
r/c pilots and open more frequency channels for remote-controlled
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