MASTEC NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. - SECTION 333 EXEMPTION REQUEST ADDENDUM Page 1 of 2

December 4, 2015

U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Docket Operations

West Building Ground Floor, Room w12-140

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,

Washington, DC 20590

Submitted Electronically via the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) 

Re: Addendum to Exemption Request under Section 333 of the FAA Reform Act and Part 11 of the 

Federal Aviation Regulations.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I, Adam Jordan, have prepared the following addendum to my Exemption Request filed on October 22

nd

2015. This Addendum allows for the inclusion of an additional UA the Flyability Gimball (shown below).

Flyability Gimball

THE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT (UA):

 The UA is a lightweight (under 55 lb. gross weight), battery operated multi-rotor aircraft capable 

of manual and fully automated flight, with a total flight time is 12 minutes per battery. Its size is

16” in Diameter. The Flyability Gimball system is unique in that the Gimball has an exoskeleton

used to protect both the equipment contained within and objects it may come in contact with

(collision avoidance). Its intended use is for safe close up inspection of infrastructure: towers,

bridges, buildings and so on.

THE UA INCLUDES:

 An on-board flight computer with GPS navigation and location ability that receives signals for 

flight controls from a ground-based transmitter/controller;

 On-board cameras capable of capturing imagery in the form of full color, high definition still 

photos and video

 An on-board telemetry system that delivers flight data from the on-board flight computer to the 

on-board radio transmitter including altitude AGL, horizontal and vertical speed, and compass

direction of flight 

 An on-board radio transmitter that transmits the flight data from the telemetry system 

described above to the ground station
MASTEC NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. - SECTION 333 EXEMPTION REQUEST ADDENDUM Page 2 of 2

THE GROUND STATION PART OF THE SYSTEM:

 A Pilot in Command (PIC) In operational control of a mission from beginning to end, and who 

controls the UA while in the air

 A 2.4GHz radio transmitter/controller operated by the PIC to control the UA while in flight

 Ground Station (computer/tablet) which receives and displays system telemetry real time from 

the UA

 A Visual Observer (VO), a person who provides a second pair of eyes to visually track the UA 

while in flight.

This Addendum makes no other changes to the original request including exemptions sought, reasons 

for exemption request, operating procedures and/or operating parameters.

The name and contact information of the applicant remains the same:

Sincerely, 

Adam Jordan

Phone: 561.962.9848

Email: Adam.Jordan@mastec.com

o Appendix A is part of the original request and pertains to flight operations

o Appendix B is part of the original request and includes the SENSFLY EXOM, ALTUS DELTA LRX, 

RIEGL RICOPTER, & AIBOT X6 User’s Manual

 Appendix C (attached) includes a link to the Gimball’s User’s Manual
MASTEC NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. – APPENDIX C– User Manual

APPENDIX C – USER’S MANUAL FLYABILITY GIMBALL

Users Manuals for the Flyability systems can be downloaded here. 

MasTec Network Solutions LLC., will keep a copy with each UA. 

Flyability Gimball User’s Manual