“The AMA Authorities Affairs group has been working persistently with lawmakers this 12 months to make sure our passion is protected in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization laws. The Senate’s August recess gave our group a couple of days to regulate our technique in the direction of preserving Part 336 and to handle some state and native considerations.”

Efforts are being made to repeal Part 336, referred to as the “Particular Rule for Mannequin Plane”

Part 336 is the explanation why in the present day’s drone pilots and generations of model-aircraft fliers have been capable of fly with no Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pilot’s license, equipage mandates, and regulatory paperwork. Part 336 is a secure custom that has been round for a lot of a long time. When you like flying your drone or mannequin plane for recreation with out mandates that embrace pilot licenses and distant IDs, motion is required now.

One option to describe what is going on, for my part, is that Google and others are “pulling up the ladder behind them“. In different phrases, Part 336 is why many in tech and drones had been capable of get their begin, and experiment, and develop into profitable. Now, Google and different industrial pursuits are pursuing their very own self-interest and in search of to restrict the hobbyists, the experimenters, the researchers. 

Learn extra about this assault on the RC and drone hobbyist at RotorDrone Journal.