Exemption Request for UAS Pilot service COA :

Operator:

Thomas Ernest Truett III 1914 Memorial Drive Cayce, SC 29033 ATP 3120441 ATP/CFI/CFII/MEI/CFIG

This submission is made to request an exemption and to obtain a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) in order to provide PIC services to individuals/ entities/ businesses

or an yone who wishes to operate a UAS in a Commercial context as defined by the FAA. The object of this request is to provide professional services to owner/operators of UAS’s in the same capacit y as a contract professional pilot provides pilot services to individuals or business concerns who operate private or corporate aircraft. This would also allow me to provide the proper level o f instructional services to those entities or in dividuals who seek t o obtain the proper training and earn the certificate necessary to be able to legally operate said UAS’s themselves. By offering and providing this service I would be ensuring that the UAS’s would be operated b y qualified operators, be they my self or the properl y trained and certificated owner/operaters, thereb y making sure that the UAS is operated within the purview prescribed in the law as stated in Section 333.

Granting of this exemption and COA would also serve to set president so as to establish the foundation for future individuals in my position to propagate the training of ‘would be’ UAS operators to the proper and desired level of knowledge and competence and promote the high level of operational competency required to operate these UAS’s in our National Airspace Sy stem.

I am also asking that this exemption and COA be granted for the operation to any “multi

rotor” or “fixed wing” UAS that is covered in the definition and specifications put forth in the description outlined with respect to weight limit, maximum speed, duration of flight and maximum distance of operation. Imake this stipulation because of the consistency

and similarity

of the manual operational controls from one s ys tem to the next and do to the similarity

of the programmable characteristics for flight plan capabilities of the UAS’s in use to date. This high level of consistency makes operation of a wide variet y of UAS’s and, therefore, the training of subsequent operators, be they “service providers” or “owner/ope rators” a greatly simplified matter.

This would also lay

the foundation for establishing the creation of a new and needed category and class of aircraft that would make training and regulation a much simpler task to accomplish. i.e.: Aircraft category : UA S ; Class ; Multi

- rotor or fixed wing. Also operational modes defined as Manual / Programmable / Autonomous.

The goals of this submission are two fold:In the short term, to provide a source of qualified, properl y trained operators with the

knowledge an d skill to operate a UAS in the current NAS with the high degree of safet y necessary for continuing and growing proliferation of these vehicles in a safe and professional manner.

In the long term, to establish a new classification of aircraft so as to pro vide for the long term regulation of, training for and operation in a commercial capacity to allow for profitable expansion of new use and business with no compromise in safet y.