A couple facts to string together as you please:
- FAA does not account for cost of CBO and private club membership in their cost figures. At least $75 a year to CBO to even get access to FAA Recognized Identification Areas ... and club membership is often the same or more.
- Current FAA registrations number around 1.0 million. CBO says it has 200,000 members. That means non-CBO members outnumber CBO members by FOUR TO ONE!
- If non-CBO members are required to join CBO in order to access FRIAs, that represents up to $60 MILLION annually to the CBO.
- An option that requires membership in a CBO in order to exercise privilege in PUBLIC airspace means the rule requires overwhleming majority of recreational sUAS flyers to join a PRIVATE DUES COLLECTING organization in order to enjoy the only option available short of expensive equipment upgrades.
- Government mandated membership in a CBO in order to enjoy privileges puts that CBO in control of whether or not a citizen can exercise privileges under the rule. Examples include, but not limited to:
Due-process protections in event individual is denied membership in CBO
CBO fixed sites that are closed to new members
CBO fixed sites that discriminate against some types of recreational sUAS
CBO fixed sites that require secondary private organizational membership to use them
Etc.