ORIGINAL: smh20502
I know it's not simple to get something added to an FAA chart. But it could be. All that is needed is everyone to agree that a box around the rc field is necessary. Is it really that difficult for RC pilots and FAA certified sport pilots to agree on that?
FAA aside, and what it would take. Please only FAA certified pilots answer this. Is it really that difficult for RC pilots and FAA certified sport pilots to agree that we actually can share the air and that in order to do so we must work as a team and know where each other are?
I am not sure I follow you. First, why the focus on "sport pilots"? The OP incident involved a commercial helicopter and there are relatively few people with the "recreational pilot" license compared to the regular FAA license.
Second, pilots have essentially no involvement in the process of determining what goes on an FAA sectional. That is a purely FAA function and while non-FAA people, i.e. the public, can make requests or suggestions, it is solely the FAA who determines what ends up on a chart. Again, let me point out CNO and PVMAC. It took years of requests to the FAA to get it put on the chart. It finally happened after a near miss between a Mooney and a turbine jet model.
And there is no "box around" the PVMAC location. There is an information box for pilots noting that model aircraft may be present at or below 400 feet agl.
To start the process you would want to track down the FAA Airspace Manager for your area. But know that it is a long process and that person is just teh entry point, it goes up the chain within the FAA before any final decisions are made.