{"id":279,"date":"2012-03-05T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-03-06T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:02:58","slug":"your-questions-answered-rules-for-those-not-operating-within-a-community-based-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2012\/03\/05\/your-questions-answered-rules-for-those-not-operating-within-a-community-based-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Questions Answered – Rules for those not operating within a ‘Community-Based’ program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your questions answered-<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Many non-AMA members fly at sites other than established model aviation fields (ie: AMA clubs). How will this impact the new regulations and how will the new role for AMA address this?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rich Hanson, leader of the AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We won\u2019t know for sure how the FAA will address the non-AMA modeler until the proposed sUAS rule is published in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) slated for release later this spring.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s clear that the provisions provided in the recent FAA reauthorization bill do not apply to model aircraft operations conducted outside the safety programming of a nationwide community-based organization. Therefore, it\u2019s easily assumed that the proposed rule will establish minimum safety criteria for what I call the non participating modeler. And, I suspect this criteria will be relatively restrictive as to what, where and how these individuals can operate model aircraft.<\/p>\n

Most of us are familiar with club flying sites that are controlled and managed by an AMA chartered club, and where AMA membership is required to fly at the site. However, there are many locations where both AMA members and non members fly. Most of these are established public flying sites; however, there are a few locations where MA operations occur in a more casual or unstructured fashion. Exactly how the rules will be established for these locations is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n

Assuming the FAA does establish minimum MA safety criteria in the sUAS regulation, this will then become the operating requirements for the non participating modelers and for all model aircraft operations conducted outside of AMA\u2019s safety program. It would follow that this criteria will become the default rules for locations where non participating modelers are allowed to operate. At public flying sites where both AMA members and non members are allowed to fly it will be left to the public authority to establish the rules for their facility. Nevertheless, AMA intends to work proactively with the public entities to encourage them to adopt AMA\u2019s safety programming in order to afford the greatest latitude in the MA operations.<\/p>\n

At other locations where both AMA members and non members fly, the criteria established in the sUAS rule will still apply. However, it will be left to the landowner or the local authorities to determine whether MA operations will be conducted under the sUAS rule or to adopt the safety programming of a community-based organization.<\/p>\n

In any case AMA and its standards development workgroup are working hard to protect both public and private flying sites as well as the AMA member’s ability to fly from ad hoc locations.<\/p>\n

AMA is not and will not be responsible for model aircraft operations conducted outside of AMA\u2019s safety program and will not be responsible for the actions of the non participating modelers. Enforcement of the safety criteria established in the sUAS rule will be left to the FAA.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rich Hanson AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your questions answered- Many non-AMA members fly at sites other than established model aviation fields (ie: AMA clubs). How will this impact the new regulations and how will the new role for AMA address this? Rich Hanson, leader of the AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs: We won\u2019t know for sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002422,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10,7,28,47,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airspace","category-congress","category-faa","category-member-feedback","category-member-questions","category-nprm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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\/1002422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/283"}],"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=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}