Fovea Aero Systems LLC

60 Fostertown Road  Medford, New Jersey 08055

Phone: 800-257-6442  E-Mail: jeff@foveaaero.com  Web: www.FoveaAero.com

Date: April 5, 2015

U.S. Department of Transportation

Docket Operations, M-30

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE

Room W12-140, West Building Ground Floor

Washington, DC 20590-0001

Dear Sir or Madam:

In regards to the letter dated March 2, 2015, petition for a Section 333 exemption from the Federal 

Aviation Regulations (hereafter, “The Petition”), filed under docket FAA-2015-0545-0001, Fovea Aero 

Systems LLC’s hereby amends The Petition with the following request.

Fovea Aero Systems LLC requests consideration for the Section 333 exemption to include additional 

commercial UAS operations for various industries and applications, including:

• Pipeline inspection and patrol,

• Cinematography, videography, photography and filmmaking,

• Wildlife and forestry monitoring,

• Agriculture monitoring,

• Surveying operations,

• Construction site inspection, photography and monitoring,

• Bridge inspection and monitoring,

• Flare stack inspection, and

• Building / structure inspection.

Fovea Aero Systems LLC will operate the sUASs as described in this docket in full compliance with the 

limitations and operational procedures as presented in The Petition, as well as with any conditions, 

limitations and procedures as determined by the Federal Aviation Administration. Please refer to The 

Petition for full descriptions of these limitations to be applied to all applications and industries described 

herein.

Additional flight procedures, limitations and conditions will be determined and set forth as applicable 

for each application and industry in order to maintain safety of flight for participating persons, nonparticipating persons and property in the flight environment. Fovea Aero Systems LLC will also 

communicate and coordinate with each Flight Standards District Office (“FSDO”) responsible for the 

flight location as required by the Federal Aviation Regulations (“FARs”) or requested by the FAA.

Each of these applications and industries, as well as the public at large, will experience a significant and 

definitive benefit through the use of sUASs to perform operations normally performed, or heretofore 

impossible to be performed, by manned aircraft. The use of an sUAS rather than a manned aircraft in 
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such applications will further the public interest in several areas including, but not limited to, the 

following:

• The sUAS carries no passengers, pilot or crew, thereby increasing pilot, passenger and worker 

safety.

• The sUAS can often eliminate the need for a worker to climb structures in order to inspect 

components and items thereby increasing worker safety.

• The sUAS can identify safety concerns that are not visible from the ground, may not be visible from 

a manned aircraft, or may require a manned aircraft to operate at a less than ideal or potentially 

unsafe altitude and / or location.

• The sUAS carries no flammable fuel thereby increasing safety to the general public.

• The sUAS has a lower noise signature than a typical helicopter or fixed wing aircraft thereby 

improving public welfare.

• The sUAS has no emissions thereby reducing the environment impact over traditional manned 

aircraft.

• The sUAS is less expensive to operate than a traditional manned aircraft thereby decreasing costs 

for the applications described herein. This can allow for operations previously unavailable to these 

industries or performed at considerable expense and risk. Depending on the application, the use of 

an sUAS can: increase worker and public safety through more frequent and thorough inspections; 

help optimize food and vegetation production thereby reducing costs and increasing availability; 

allow for better forest and wildlife management thereby assisting public environmental concerns; 

identify unsafe conditions in buildings, construction sites, pipelines, bridges as well as public and 

private infrastructure thereby increasing public and worker safety; and provide better land surveys 

without the dangers, impact and costs associated with low flying manned aircraft.

• The sUAS significantly reduces or completely eliminates the risks to onboard pilot and crew as well 

as to participating and non-participating persons associated with, and in the area of, aerial 

cinematography, videography, photography and filmmaking using manned aircraft.

• The sUAS is less expensive to acquire than a manned aircraft thereby allowing for more inspection 

crews to operate concurrently. This can result in better-maintained infrastructure and more reliable 

inspections.

Fovea Aero Systems LLC contends that this amendment, as well as the information contained in The 

Petition, satisfies the conditions and criteria set forth in Section 333 of the Reform Act, that the 

operations described herein benefit the public interest as a whole in many ways and that the use of 

sUASs meets or exceeds the level of safety currently experienced by traditional manned aircraft utilized 

for these purposes.

The applicant contact information is:

Fovea Aero Systems LLC

Attn: Jeffrey Sassinsky

Telephone: (800) 257-6442 ext. 706

Email: jeff@foveaaero.com

Address: 60 Fostertown Road, Medford, New Jersey 08055
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The applicant is thankful for the Federal Aviation Administration’s time and consideration.

Respectfully yours,

Jeffrey Sassinsky

President, Fovea Aero Systems LLC