Originally Posted by
BarracudaHockey
It says CBO it doesn't say AMA, so any recognized CBO can establish a FRIA
And yet again, it was the FAA that talked about 3000 sites becoming FRIAs. Gee ... I wonder who went to them and said "People can fly at our sites" ... ?
The other thing is that just because other groups CAN establish FRIAs, the FAA and the OMB cannot ignore ONE PRIVATE DUES COLLECTING organization's near monopolistic control of overwhelming majority of FRIA sites. This is particularly problematic in areas where there are literally no other options for citizens to fly UNLESS they join a PRIVATE DUES COLLECTING ORGANIZATION. This is even more of an issue when OMB sees that this provision in the rule results in annual costs of over $60 million that were not considered (probably because AMA conveniently 'forgot' to mention to FAA that to use their fields people have to join).