MILLER4PRESIDENT2020 said:
Myth #3: Commercial UAS operations are a “gray area” in FAA regulations.
hahah bullcrap, the entire FAA structure is a gray area. I deal with them everyday and the FAA doesnt even realize their own rules half the time. What a f'ing joke. I used to flight instruct for an aviation lawyer. He told me If i ever get in trouble to call him because there is so much gray area in the FAR's that it is crazy. In the commercial airline world we had for years what was called "Maslows interpretation of flight time duty time rules." I always found it funny that someone who didn't write the rules is now considered to be the official "interpretation" of the rules. How about you just ask the original guy who wrote the rules what was considered right or wrong? because the whole section is so convoluted and open to debate that there is no right or wrong! and what if MY interpretation is different then Maslow's. Who granted Malow the seemingly unquestionable knowledge of the rules that his interpretation is the right one? Now that we have the new FAR 117 rest rules and no longer follow Maslows interpretation of the old rules, I get emails from my Union and from management every day stating "this is how we interpret the new rest rules." What is there to interpret? Tell me what is right and wrong! The answer. They can't! It's one big grey area! They don't even understand their own rules!
It's like the bible, half the stuff contradicts the other half. And you always get in trouble for half that you broke, not the half that you follow. My guess is some intern at the FAA put this together in response to the case of the guy challenging the FAA saying that you don't have jursidiction over drones because they are not considered "aircraft", as a sort of preemptive strike to cover all their bases for future later court cases.
Its too bad we dont just have someone from the FAA sit down with a respresentative from one of the model aircraft groups and draft out a set of common sense rules over a cup of coffee in the morning, instead it is going to take 5 years of fighting and people with fines levied against them. Typically government bureaucratic ********. I hope someone from the FAA reads this post. You guys are morons. Now the government is interfering with your health care as well.......
Rant over.
I flew Part 135....slightly different rules than 121(airlines). But, I've been "tapped out" on my Duty Time before, and had my Employer tell me that the flight from the Hospital back to base, was Part 91!!! I politely told him that it was my certificate that would get suspended, not his. They got me a rental car, I drove home, the "on-duty" pilot took the rental car back to the Hospital and picked up the Helicopter.
Funny how your Employer, or even your Union(OPEIU here), can "tell" you what to do. BUT, they have nothing to lose!! You have a Suspension possible for the violation.
Yes, I dealt with the FAA on almost a daily basis when I was flying too(I was also a Check Airman and CFII), and it was laughable, at best. They were my "friends". But, no 2 had the some interpretation of a rule.
Trust me-the FAA is so far out in left field on this....they haven't a clue.
IF, the FAA scares you-then do what you want. I'm not afraid of the FAA, at all.
And the page that was posted, should be called Mythbusters.......because all their Myths, are still that. They DO NO have the Regulatory Authority-the end.