There are a few really big problems with this proposal, just as many of you have pointed out. But at the same time there are a lot of things that have not been pointed out.

• Airspace is owned, by the land owner.
• The FAA can not take airspace without compensation.

All of us here know that this is a really odd thing they are proposing, but I don't think many people realize what they are doing isn't really legal.

If this proposal goes thru,

• It will take airspace rights away with no compensation. And airspace rights are worth far more than the FAA will ever tell you. In some areas it is worth more than the land under it, far more.
• There will be more FAA rules, regulations, and costs on a toy RC, than ultralights. Ultralights are the most dangerous FAA class there is, they kill one person every 6 days and can easily cross boarders loaded. (there isn't much money to be made, so they ignore it)
• RC will pay to kick start the ID system for the shipping industry. The current amount registered drones will offset costs that way until drone shipping far out numbers RC. There is a reason there are no million hour calculations in the proposal.
• All state laws about drones will have to be nullified. There are very few states that you can fly anything near a house, people, over livestock, a road, etc. These laws were put in place because the FAA can not control that airspace. So, you can't legally deliver squat with anything unmanned.
• The FAA has already given UPS permission to violate all of those laws, and the airspace rights. They can fly shipping drones everywhere now, not just in the seven test areas....
• The FAA can only approve drones, after exhaustive testing, which has not been done. There has been nothing exhaustive about any of this, other than the hot air the FAA is spurting.
• There are already rules in place for drones exceeding 250 pounds, and yet basically no rules on the maintenance on these drones. Unlike manned aircraft that someone would most likely notice an issue.

If you do a little digging, there have been incidents in the testing as well. I was going to link those as will be the FAA wont let me log in for some reason to find it, I can't post them yet either.

There is a flip side to this as well. Much of the drone advancement has not come from big companies. It has come from hobbyists. What will happen to that once it isn't a hobby?
There are also lots of RC companies, Jobs, etc. That will go away.

How much "Drone" stuff does Futaba make percentage wise to all of their products? Simple answer, not much. Yet their revenue was over 600 million last year.....
There are lots of RC companies that do not make "Drone" stuff out there, that will go bust.

The AMA template that they released is nothing more than for the AMA, and I don't suggest that people just include that in what they send the FAA in the comments area.
Any defense we have to this, has to be from legal aspects. Not someone at the AMA that prays they get approved fields.

Write your Senators, Write the President, write anyone else you can think of.

This isn't going away, and if it goes into effect it will be to late to do anything about it unless we can convince the Supreme Court to step in.

Write them too......