RE: Beach Aviation, LLC January 14, 2016 Federal Aviation Administration 800 IndependenceAvenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20591 ATTN: Hearing Docket Clerk, AGC- 430 Wilbur Wright Building

- Suite 2W1000 and also to: Judge J. E. Sullivan U.S. Administrative LawJudge Office of Hearings, M-20 U.S. Dept. of Transportation 1200 NewJerseyAvenue, S.E. (E11-310) Washington, D.C. 20590 VIA FAX: 202-366-7536 and also to: Attorney Brandon Goldberg Office of the Regional Counsel, AS0-7 FAA 1701 ColumbiaAvenue College Park, A 30337 VIA FAX: 404-305-5223

DearJudge Sullivan: FAA CASE: 2013-S0-950071 Docket Number: FAA-2015-1325

I am very sorrythat I did not receive your Order until todaywhen I returned to the office. I live in The Bahamas (in Nassau) since July2015 and Ionly getthe mail in the U.S. when I return. Isee in the Order that the FAA says I received a Motion from September28, 2015 about defaultfinding and judgment. I did not receive anything like that and Iwould askthem to show us the certified mail return receipt that is in your Order. I know itwasn't received by me. I amhappyto havethem email me iftheywant at CHASBWI@qmail.com ifthat is easier so I can respond. I am a Commercial Pilot and I have a small flight school, BeachAviation, LLC in Boca Raton, Florida and we started doing scenicflights in Pompano Beach, Florida. We asked the FAAfor a letter of authorization and we contracted with a drug testing company, Flight Line from Fort Lauderdale InternationalAirportto do the alcohol and drug testing prior to any flights. Nobodytold us we needed to do pre-employment drug testing because it was only me who was flying the flights. I knew I had never, ever, done drugs in my life (and was in a different not DOT program for random drug testing anyway) and knew it wasn't an issue. I had paid a company to advise us, and it seemsthe advice was not complete. Ionly learned of this when the FAA Drug Abatement people came to inspect my records. And in fact we had a program and continued to have a program for the nexttwo years even when we did not need one! Safety has always been our concern. Itold them which flights Iflew, hid nothing from them, and in my being young and naive , hoping to havefun and show people the joyof flying for $99.00 a flight, the 12or 13 flights I did have cost meto lose the ScenicTour Letter ofAuthorization, cost me hundreds of dollars in legal fees (which I cannot afford anymore and do not have a lawyer on this case}, and may cost $15,400.00, (but at one pointthe FAA offered about half). and the veryworst part is that the FAAsays Iviolated multiple safety regulations

...no way. Iwould never, ever put anyone in harms way and Iworked to hard to become a Commercial pilotto destroy it by being unsafe. I did what everyone told me to do, when theytold me to do it. I applied for a Part 141 Flight School License and the FSDO returned myapplication because theywould noteven process it until this issue is resolved. This has been a nightmare and I hope that it is oversoon so we can move on and continue to help people become pilots and become interested in aviation. I am very sorrythat I did not receive the mail, and that I am not able to afford an attorney to represent me. Iwould not knowingly miss any deadline and I apologize if this isn'tthe right wayto respond. I don't know what I am supposed to do.>' r