{"id":932,"date":"2013-01-10T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=932"},"modified":"2013-02-07T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:01:44","slug":"do-we-have-a-right-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2013\/01\/10\/do-we-have-a-right-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Have a Right to Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent email an AMA member asked if we had a \u2018right\u2019 to fly model aircraft\u2026 ?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting question\u2026 And in fact yes, we do have a right to fly!<\/p>\n

Though we do not have a specific right to access the civil airspace as part of our constitutional rights, we do have the right to navigate the US National Airspace System (NAS) by Public Law.<\/p>\n

49 U.S.C.\u00a0\u00a7\u00a040103<\/a> states, \u201cA citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FAA has been tasked with developing \u201cplans and policy for the use of the navigable airspace and assign by regulation or order the use of the airspace necessary to ensure the safety of aircraft and the efficient use of airspace.\u201d And the law does allow the FAA Administrator to \u201cmodify or revoke an assignment when required in the public interest.\u201d However, the FAA cannot unilaterally exclude any specific aeronautical activity from the NAS unless it can first show that it is in the \u201cpublic interest\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n

Of course with this right to fly comes personal responsibility. We all have the responsibility to follow the rules once legally established, to operate our model aircraft in a safe manner and to not endanger the life and property of others. Failure to do so risks revocation of our personal right to the NAS.<\/p>\n

AMA is committed to protecting aeromodeling\u2019s access to the national airspace and will continue to fight for your \u201cRight to Fly\u201d!<\/p>\n

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

In a recent email an AMA member asked if we had a \u2018right\u2019 to fly model aircraft\u2026 ? It\u2019s an interesting question\u2026 And in fact yes, we do have a right to fly! Though we do not have a specific right to access the civil airspace as part of our […]<\/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-932","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\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/1014"}],"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=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}