Gene and Trappys lawyer Brendan Schulman will be talking to Patrick on todays sUAS News podcast at 1330 PST. Call in to ask any questions. It will be available to download from the link below after the show as well.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/suasnews/2014/04/22/dont-mess-with-texas-equusearch
This is what they will be talking about.
PETITION FOR REVIEW
Pursuant to Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and 49 U.S.C. § 46110,Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team (“Texas EquuSearch”), RPSearch Services Inc. and Eugene Robinson, hereby respectfully petition this Court for review of an order issued to them on February 21, 2014, by the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”).
A copy of the order is attached as Exhibit 1 (the “Order”).
The FAA’s Order commands Petitioners to cease all use of radio control model aircraft in connection with their volunteer, unpaid search-and-rescue efforts on behalf of the families of missing persons.
The Order declares in no uncertain terms that such operations are “illegal” and demands that Petitioners “stop immediately.”
Download the full petition TES-v-FAA
Watch the movie ;-)
Comments
Further proof that despite your long winded repetitive and sometimes insulting rants, you don't know as much as you think. If you think $$ is going to flow to steer regulation the way certain private corporations or individuals want it, you're delusional. That's how it ALWAYS works.
What's most pathetic is that they are so far behind, and so useless, that they use the media to find their cases and arbitrarily enforce some of what sticks out regardless of circumstances.
Hi Allen,
Yes there are stupid and or inexperienced people who are using them irresponsibly and in the long run that is certainly what we need legal enforceable regulations to protect everybody from.
It's just that in the short term the FAA itself is acting with extreme irresponsibility by trying to bully everybody into behaving the way it wants without any reasonable legal backup.
You don't fix one problem by producing an even bigger one.
Dumb and Dumberer!
Hi Monroe, I agree that eventually it is going to have to be handled by the FAA and that is in principle just fine.
The sad fact is that what they have been doing in practice without the actual legislation to back them up simply amounts to abuse of power.
And that does not bode well for future hopes that they might be expected to behave fairly or rationally.
They seem to be operating under the same level of reason, logic and legal justification used by the Somali Pirates that tried to Hijack Captain Philips.
I like that idea too.
The FAA could ease their own pain by saying it's not their problem below 400 feet and so many miles from an airport and leave it up to each State.
I am grateful to Gene, RP Flight Systems and Texas Equusearch for stepping up and into the batters box for this fight. Unfortunately it is a fight that needs to be fought with the FAA. They have procrastinated till the "Cows have come home" and now that a judge stepped in and has made a ruling they cry foul and start the wringing their hands saying the skies, people and property will be unsafe. It seems they are purposely trying to insight fear and ill will towards anything that flies other than a commercial, military or private aircraft. (passenger carrying) Not being able to make up their collective minds about what an RC plane is or isn't seems to be the ledge they are trying to secure and it is a slippery one at best. RC planes have been doing this stuff on so many fronts for so many years already and blind eyes have been cast on them till now.
The whole thing boils down to the FAA not getting off their collective butts and doing the job back when they said they would. Now they have an escalated situation on their hands and it only gets uglier from here on in.
I'm all for regulation, regulation of government. Think about that every time you say "they" must do something.
We can only feel humble and admirative listening to the story of that man, founder of Equusearch. Respect.
Let's hope justice will prevail and will once again defeat FAA in its abusive freedom repression drift .
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