{"id":2093,"date":"2014-06-23T22:31:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T22:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:41:17","slug":"faa-publishes-its-interpretation-of-the-special-rule-for-model-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2014\/06\/23\/faa-publishes-its-interpretation-of-the-special-rule-for-model-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA&#8217;s Interpretation of the &#8220;Special Rule for Model Aircraft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>J<strong>une 23, 2014<\/strong> &#8211; Today the Federal Aviation Administration filed a Notice of Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft found in Section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95). The 17 page document emphasizes the agency&#8217;s authority to take enforcement action against hazardous operations and spells out the FAA&#8217;s interpretation of the congressional mandate to exempt model aircraft from future regulation provided such aircraft are operated within the safety programming of a community-based organization such as the AMA.<\/p>\n<p>AMA is currently reviewing the document and will make further comment upon careful evaluation of the interpretive rule.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;\">Click the link below to read\/download a copy of the rule&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2014-06-25\/pdf\/2014-14948.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;\">FAA&#8217;s Press Release&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/news\/press_releases\/news_story.cfm?newsId=16474\" target=\"_blank\">FAA Offers Guidance to Model Aircraft Operators<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888; font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;\">AMA&#8217;s Press Release &#8211; June 24, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.modelaircraft.org\/files\/FAAInterpretiveRule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AMA&#8217;s Response to FAA&#8217;s Interpretive Rule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; June 23, 2014 &#8211; Today the Federal Aviation Administration filed a Notice of Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft found in Section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95). The 17 page document emphasizes the agency&#8217;s authority to take enforcement action [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}