For my entire life I’ve been fascinated with flight. One of my earliest flight memories is watching pelicans flying together above the waves and acrobatically swooping, flipping and diving into the sea. Another was of seeing hundreds of geese flying across the sky in their moving V formation. Birds of all sorts fascinated me and

I have been around a/c all my life. My father went into the a/c business after WW2 buying, repairing, selling a/c 13 BT13, 3 AT6, 1 P38, 1 PT22, 1 PT19, 3 T50. He kept one of the Bamboo Bombers and flew numerous CAP searches all over the western US. I flew on most of

I have 13 fixed wing model airplanes. 8 planes were built from plans by me. The other 5 were bought made. The largest plane is 1/3 scale J-3 cub with a gas engine 22lbs in weight. I fly at a club field 15 miles north of Alexandria MN need to be a AMA member to

Flying RC aircraft is my only hobby right now. Its how I spend my time, enjoy life and meet people. I have a lot of money invested in my fleet and it would be mostly unusable under the new rules. The FAA proposal will destroy most of what I do in this hobby. I am

Its my main hobby, I practice safely at sanctioned fields and non sanctioned. I am not a danger to the public, neither are my peers in the hobby. The law should go after those that operate recklessly. The reckless and the ones that will cause intentional harm will not comply by rules anyway and have

One of my fondest memories with my father as a young child revolves around rc airplanes. I remember going to friends of my father’s and working on airplanes to fly in their backyards. The time that I spent with my dad tearing down and rebuilding aircraft is some of my most memorable. Fast forward to

Fun, Relaxing, Like the building part of it,

I fly for my schools film class, These new restrictions would require me to put more money in to either a remote id kit or an entire new drone to meet the requirements, I do not have the capability of the funds to purchase more/new equipment just to film small short videos in which I

Cause it’s better release of my inner demons then what past experiences have taught me.

Background I am 26 years old and I have been flying home built First Person View (FPV) drones and RC aircraft for five years now. It has taught me an enormous deal about electronics, radio (I studied and received my HAM radio license because of it), and flight technology. It has also inspired my son