Sorry about so much email lately. I do try to be selective.
This one IS important. AMA sent you an email last week asking you to click on a link which would automate sending a letter to your US Representative asking them to approve an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill.
The amendment would allow us to self-declare our own FRIA. A FRIA is a Federally Recognized Identification Area, where we are not required to install a position reporting device in our planes. (Our application for a FRIA at MAR/C was recently submitted to the FAA by the AMA, but we must now wait for approval.) The amendment would also allow higher altitudes in Class G airspace.
For your convenience, I've pasted the email from the AMA below. The links should work.
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The Academy of Model Aeronautics needs your help to remove many of the burdens currently facing the hobby.
Recently the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate both released their draft versions of FAA Reauthorization. In these bills, AMA was successful in securing higher altitudes in uncontrolled airspace, clarifying large model airplane operations, and providing additional protections for educational UAS operations. !
However, AMA’s work isn’t done. We have amendments in both the House and Senate that would allow for higher altitudes for everyone in Class G airspace and would also allow AMA and other community-based organizations to self-declare FAA-Recognized Identification Areas (FRIAs).
We encourage you to TAKE ACTION immediately, it’s critical that Congress hears your voice now.
Thank you all for participating in this CALL TO ACTION. Change cannot happen without you!