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    Interesting - College Aerial Photography & Local FAA

    Mostly a filler blurb about the University's use of a quad for athletic promotions ... mentions their interface with the local FAA. Not much of note - but then look at the following map showing their location relative to the airport. Apparently the FAA in the field is not nearly excitable as...
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    FAA Interpretive Rule - AMA's latest

    From the AMA AMA Files Petition for Review of FAA’s Interpretive Rule Today (8/22/14) the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) filed a Petition for Review in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the FAA’s Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft...
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    Something, uh, Different - Hybrid Multirotor FireFLY6

    Not a Phantom, but does use a NAZA M Lite controller. 99393810
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    FAA Interpretive Rule - AMA's latest

    Once on the government site and in the model aircraft case (http://www.regulations.gov/#!searchResu ... ue;ns=true), click on Open Documents Folder and you'll be able to read the comments that have been posted. Some provide very well reasoned arguments against the proposed rulemaking, others...
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    FAA Interpretive Rule - AMA's latest

    Clearly the AMA considers this rulemaking move by the FAA to be a serious threat ... enough so that they added the following cover sheet to the latest edition of their magazine. If you object to the FAA running roughshod over our hobby, please make a comment on their website ... even if it...
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    FAA Model Aircraft Rules

    Not sure what this means ... perhaps just that all comments will not be posted on their site. On reviewing their site, it appears they've only posted about 4,000 of the 30,000 comments received.
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    Police and the Phantom 2 Vision plus

    Sounds like a personal problem :lol: Seriously, if that were true you could charge commercial airlines flying over your property with trespass, be they at 500' or 35,000 feet. I rather imagine that's not the case, even in Vermont. It's interesting to see 500' bandied about here as a minimum...
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    FAA Model Aircraft Rules

    More info / commentary in viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19035&p=173625#p173625 As of 8/14/14 only 30,430 comments have been received at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDeta ... -2014-0396 . Go there to see others' comments and to make your own comment.
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    Police and the Phantom 2 Vision plus

    The linked article is spot on in pointing out that there is not a clear definition of how much airspace over your property is "yours". As it points out, the best case law has come up with is that airspace of which the property owner can "make beneficial use" is his, nothing more. That's vague...
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    AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemaking

    Re: AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemakin Many ... Mostly those who had no first hand knowledge thereof.
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    AMA responds to June 2014 FAA Interpretive

    From the AMA today: FAA grants comment extension at the request of AMA At the request of the AMA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a 60-day extension for the public comment period (Docket No. FAA-2014-0396) for FAA's Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft...
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    AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemaking

    Re: AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemakin From the AMA today: FAA grants comment extension at the request of AMA At the request of the AMA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a 60-day extension for the public comment period (Docket No. FAA-2014-0396) for...
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    AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemaking

    Re: AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemakin Again, here's a link to comment: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDeta ... -2014-0396 It could hardly be simpler You can do so anonymously if you like (though such is probably less effective).
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    AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemaking

    Re: AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemakin Please consider joining the comment crowd ... From http://www.examiner.com/article/respons ... ent-period After more than two weeks of barely registering a blip on the Federal Aviation Administration's radar, a late wave of...
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    AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemaking

    Re: AMA Requests YOU Send Comment to FAA Re: Their Rulemakin Video from AMA ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUPCv_5z1k Also see http://www.modelaircraft.org/aboutama/A ... ponse.aspx article.