ORIGINAL: Silent-AV8R
even if the Senate Amendment survives and the act is signed into law it will change very little. The FAA has been clear in saying that they plan to exempt hobby models from the rule. So they will be in compliance. The pending legislation says nothing about prohibiting the FAA from defining what a model is in order to exempt it from the rule, which is what there were doing anyhow.
Bingo. And the FAA can define/qualify a CBO. I'm not certain why the AMA lobbied to give the FAA what the FAA wanted. Whose side are we on anyway.
