PilotFighter
Houston is a very large city. Houston has about 15 clubs in the area. Houston also has nearly 50 commercial, corperate, and private airfields. Finding a place to fly models that is more than 3 miles away from an airport is difficult. For that reason, many of the Houston area clubs are within 3 miles of an airport. And most Houston flyers are aware of the 400 foot rules.
are you familiar with the Zero Ft Rule near airports?
Compare the now (ac91-57) with the could be (sUAS ARC):
c. Do not fly model aircraft higher than 400 feet above the surface. When flying aircraft
within 3 miles of an airport, notify the airport operator, or when an air traffic facility is located at
the airport, notify the control tower, or flight service station.
3.3(4) Model Aircraft shall not be operated within 3 NM miles of an airport, heliport, or
seaplane base without the permission of the ATC authority or airport manager.
Consider the chat needed with the airport when within 3miles:
Mr Airport, we are flying above 400' saturday and are notifying you as AC91-57 reccomends,
other than Saturday we will be below 400 so we never even call you
vs
Mr Aiport, may we please fly at all on saturday,:
We humbly beg for sUAS 3.3(4) permission to get off the ground with a model near your airport