ORIGINAL: phlpsfrnk
I do not believe the intent of the public-law was/is that there needs to be an agreement between modelers and all local airports. The long standing intention was to notify of our presence within 3 miles. Only if there is a conflict does there need to be any direct “negotiations” to allow continuing operations. The only difference between the intentions of the text in the public-law and AC 91-57 is two more miles around the local airports.
Regards
Frank
Agreed (except now it's going to be five miles when the reg's emerge). But that doesn't necessarily mean that the language used can't give the FAA a hook to hang very stringent regulations on. You can't put much weight on the "intent" of legislatures. After all, the legislature consists of hundreds of different people, and in most cases none of them have actually read the bills they are voting on.
It was suggested earlier that the language in question came from the AMA. If so, the AMA did a poor job of drafting.