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We encourage all of you to reach out to your representative with the below memo to encourage them to make the following changes for the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023. This outreach should go to everyone in Congress, and you can use the tools below the memo to find the contact information for your local representative.

Congressional outreach works best if you focus on your local members.

Instructions:

  • Follow the links below the memo to your Representative and Senators contact forms and copy the memo in.

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Memo to Congress on Raising registration and Remote ID requirements from 250 grams to 1 Kilogram

 Subject: Request to raise the lower bound of 250 grams to 1 kg of the sUAS registration requirements in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023

 

To:  Congressional Representative / Senator,


I am a member of the First-Person View Freedom Coalition. This organization is one of the four FAA recognized Community Based Organizations.  

In 2015, the FAA established small Unmanned Aircraft System registration between 0.55 pounds (250 grams) to 55 pounds (citation 1). We request the lower bound of this rule be increased to 1 kilogram.  In 2018, HR 2810, section 1092(a) reinstated sUAS registration. Then, on January 2021, the FAA issued the Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft rule (citation 2) where the FAA established that all registered UAS must have Remote Identification. The safety record of sUAS continues to be excellent with zero fatalities from a sUAS impacting an individual on the ground by an electric powered multi-rotor.  

We request that Congress include in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023 a mandate to the FAA to raise the lower bound of the registration requirement. Explicit in this request is the recommendation to also raise the remote identification requirement to 1 kg. Our membership urges Congress to mandate the FAA to make this change as there are no discernible safety risks.  There is a substantial benefit for recreational operators having the ability to fly model airplanes and other sUAS where they can fly them today.  And, this change would have the benefit to businesses serving the 1.76 million recreational sUAS operators in the USA today (citation 3).

Thank you for your consideration of this critical issue.

 

1 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/12/16/2015-31750/registration-and-marking-requirements-for-small-unmanned-aircraft - Registration and Marking Requirements for Small Unmanned Aircraft (2015)

2 Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft. RIN 2120-AL31 Docket No.: FAA-2019-1100

3 FAA Aerospace Forecast 2022 – 2042, published 2022.  Pp 53 and 63.

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You can copy and paste this into the contact forms for your Congress members.

  • Memo to Congress on Raising registration and Remote ID requirements from 250 grams to 1 Kilogram

    Subject: Request to raise the lower bound of 250 grams to 1 kg of the sUAS registration requirements in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023

    To:  Congressional Representative / Senator,

    I am a member of the Flite Test Community Association. This organization is one of the four FAA recognized Community Based Organizations.  

    In 2015, the FAA established small Unmanned Aircraft System registration between 0.55 pounds (250 grams) to 55 pounds (citation 1). We request the lower bound of this rule be increased to 1 kilogram.  In 2018, HR 2810, section 1092(a) reinstated sUAS registration. Then, on January 2021, the FAA issued the Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft rule (citation 2) where the FAA established that all registered UAS must have Remote Identification. The safety record of sUAS continues to be excellent with zero fatalities from a sUAS impacting an individual on the ground by an electric powered multi-rotor.  

    We request that Congress include in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023 a mandate to the FAA to raise the lower bound of the registration requirement. Explicit in this request is the recommendation to also raise the remote identification requirement to 1 kg. Our membership urges Congress to mandate the FAA to make this change as there are no discernible safety risks.  There is a substantial benefit for recreational operators having the ability to fly model airplanes and other sUAS where they can fly them today.  And this change would have the benefit to businesses serving the 1.76 million recreational sUAS operators in the USA today (citation 3).

    Thank you for your consideration of this critical issue.

    1 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/12/16/2015-31750/registration-and-marking-requirements-for-small-unmanned-aircraft - Registration and Marking Requirements for Small Unmanned Aircraft (2015)

    2 Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft. RIN 2120-AL31 Docket No.: FAA-2019-1100

    3 FAA Aerospace Forecast 2022 – 2042, published 2022.  Pp 53 and 63.

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