AMA Now Recommends FAA Registration (US)

[Mike]

It looks like they're no longer advising members to hold off on registration as of today. Per their email to members:

Members required to register with FAA

AMA members are now required by regulation to register their aircraft with the FAA to avoid federal enforcement and potential penalties. All Radio Control modelers must register aircraft weighing greater than 0.55 pounds online no later than February 19, 2016. The registration fee is $5. However, FAA is offering free registration when registering on or beforemidnight EST on January 21. Online registration can be accomplished on the FAA webpage at, RegisterMyUAS.faa.gov . Several AMA staff members and AMA leaders have been working with legal counsel and the FAA to find a solution for our members on the registration rule. To date, FAA has agreed in principle to several proposed initiatives that will help ease this process for our members in the future. Visitmodelaircraft.org/gov to learn more.

 

[ringolong]

Seen this earlier. I am in the process of registering a couple of mine for commercial purposes, but I think I am going to wait until the deadline just to see if anything changes by then. I doubt it will, but it is not saving much to complete it early.

 

[Mike]

Seen this earlier. I am in the process of registering a couple of mine for commercial purposes, but I think I am going to wait until the deadline just to see if anything changes by then. I doubt it will, but it is not saving much to complete it early.

I'm in the same boat. I believe there are others aside from the AMA trying to appeal this. We'll see what happens. It's only $5 if we wait. This hobby is already so expensive, what is another $5!