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 anyone 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 capacity 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 of instructional services to those entities or individuals who 

seek to 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 by qualified operators, be they myself or the 

properly trained and certificated owner/operaters, thereby 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 System.

I am also asking that this exemption and COA be granted for the operation to any “multirotor” 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. I make this stipulation because of the 

consistency and similarity of the manual operational controls from one system 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 

variety of UAS’s and, therefore, the training of subsequent operators, be they “service 

providers” or “owner/operators” 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: UAS ; 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, properly trained operators with the 

knowledge and skill to operate a UAS in the current NAS with the high degree of safety 

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 provide 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 safety.