On March 25, 2016 the FAA received the following questions and comments from an individual via
email:

“So I did as you advised me Mr. Freeman. I submitted my comments advising the FAA not to include Fixed Wing Model Aircraft or AMA members pilots in the required registration process because we have always been leaders in managing and sharing the U.S. airspace and because all of our data is already on file with the AMA including a registration number on each aircraft which identifies the person who owns it. At this time we know that the request to have our AMA number also be utilized by the FAA was subsequently denied. And so as required, I also re gistered with the FAA and got my registration number there as well. Can you or anyone with the FAA pleas e tell me how this makes our air space safer in any way? What have we gained that we didn’t alread y have? Do you honestly believe that someone planning to use a multi copter (drone) is for delivery of drugs or for terroristic purposes is going to have it registered with the FAA? Or do you really believe that some dimwit who flies his quad copter into a full size aircraft is going to be one of the 350,000 or so who have registered? Those of us who are life time aviation people are now and have always been “Saf ety First” people. I don’t mind doing anything including registering my planes if it makes the national ai rspace safer, but honestly this just strikes me as another move by another government agency trying to look like they are doing something about a problem they don’t know how to fix. I agree with all of you, that the quad copters and multi copters present a safety threat, but I don’t see registration with the FAA as reducing the real threat of tragedy in

any way.

You missed the mark guys. I firmly believe the threat of injury or loss due to a drone is as great now as has ever been. When it happens, I would bet it won’t be a registered person who caused the problem. We police our own......always have......always will.”

On April 20, 2016, the FAA received the following qu estions and comments from the same individual via
email:

“I submitted my comments advising the FAA not to include Fixed Wing Model Aircraft or AMA members pilots in the required registration process because we have always been leaders in managing and sharing the U.S. airspace and because all of our da ta is already on file with the AMA including a registration number on each aircraft which identifies th e person who owns it. At this time we know that the request to have our AMA number also be utilized by the FAA was subsequently denied. And so as required, I also registered with the FAA and got my registration number there as well. Can you or anyone with the FAA please tell me how this makes our air space safer in any way? What have we gained that we didn’t already have? Do you honestly believe that someone planning to use a multi copter (drone) is for delivery of drugs or for terroristic purposes (or just stupidly flying in controlled air space without a spotter)is going to have it registered with the FAA? Or do you really believe that some dimwit who flies his quad copter into a full size aircraft is going to beone of the 350,000 or so who have registered with the FAA? Those of us who are life time aviation pe ople are now and have always been “Safety First” people. I don’t mind doing anything including regi stering my planes if it makes the national airspace safer, but honestly this just strikes me as another move by another government agency trying to look like they are doing something about a problem they don’t know how to fix. I agree with all of you, that the quad copters and multi copters present a safety threat, but I don’t see registration with the FAA as reducing the real threat of tragedy in any way.The FAA obviously missed the mark with the requireme nt to register the model airplane fliers in the AMA. I firmly believe the threat of injury or loss due to a drone strike is as great now as has ever been. When it happens, I would bet it won’t be an AMA re gistered person who caused the problem. We police our own......always have......always will. Did you read about the multi copter striking the plane in Britain this week? It’s just a matter of time until so meone does the same thing in the U.S. We must all work together to find a solution, and so far.....the FAA Registration of drones has been a dismal failure. You can’t regulate STUPID out of existence. There are just too many of them. The FAA should have recruited the Academy of Model Aeronautics and thei r members to help find a solution. Instead you alienated 288,000 people by approaching things as if the AMA members were the problem. We clearly weren’t. I hope you can mend that bridge before the relationship deteriorates further. So far the FAA has only agitated people who could have help ed with the problem. A great deal of money and effort went into a registration program that has done nothing to make our air space safer. Why not use Doppler radar in all commercial aircraft to detect approaching object s in the sky? It seems that might be the better solution. After all, the newer models of automob iles are coming equipped with sensors to detect objects on a collision path. Can we not equip full size aircraft to do the same thing?”

The FAA responded by stating that since the individu al’s questions were not technical in nature, his questions and comments would be posted to the docket, although the comment period had closed already.