FAA 333 Recommendation

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I am wondering if anyone has a recommendation who has 333 experience.

I turned in a 333 application on June 28th, 2015. I received my docket number on October 26th, 2015. Nearly 3 months later, still nothing. Understanding that they are swamped, I waited until last week to bug them via their [email protected] email address.

I received a canned high volume response stating they are doing their best to meet a 120 day turnaround. At 3x that, curious if anyone had a recommendation on how to go about "prodding" them?
 
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I have no recommendations for prodding them. They are the federal government. They can be as slow and behind schedule and inefficient as they wish, we'll never change that. BUT... A guy in my town applied for his in July and finally got it in mid-late December.
 
Sounds like I have a very long time to wait, since I just put mine in this week. The FAA will go at their own pace.
 
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Whoa that doesn't sound right. Did you have to change something? I sent mine after you around mid July and got approved in mid October.
 
Whoa that doesn't sound right. Did you have to change something? I sent mine after you around mid July and got approved in mid October.

I don't know if you were referring to me or NADM. I didn't file for one,yet, hoping to next week. What does it,cost to file?

And since you have yours, how's business so far?
 
I don't know if you were referring to me or NADM. I didn't file for one,yet, hoping to next week. What does it,cost to file?

And since you have yours, how's business so far?

I was referring to the OP. Business is not bad. I work with a high end realtor who always wants aerials. I've shot 4 homes for him using my drone already.
 
I was referring to the OP. Business is not bad. I work with a high end realtor who always wants aerials. I've shot 4 homes for him using my drone already.

If you don't mind me asking, where do you live and what doe you charge per listing shot?
 
Whoa that doesn't sound right. Did you have to change something? I sent mine after you around mid July and got approved in mid October.

No, I haven't changed a thing. It is a pretty cut and dry application. Very close in content and format to other applications. The only thing I can think of is that I included two airframes. One of which has precedent in other applications (Sensefly EBee). I don't believe that the other does (Sensefly Exom). I should have just applied with my Phantom.
 

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