One of four types of applicants eligible for Pool 1 defined by 49 USC §44506(f)(1)(B) that includes individuals who have successfully completed air traffic controller training and graduated from an institution participating in a CTI program maintained under title 49 U.S.C. § 44506(c)(1) and who have received one of the following from the institution:  

• An appropriate recommendation; or
• A written statement certifying that the individual would have met the requirements in effect as of December 31, 2013, for an appropriate recommendation

To be eligible for Pool 1 as a CTI graduate, CTI school official/unofficial transcripts with degree confer date, and appropriate CTI recommendation letter, must be submitted prior to the close date of the vacancy announcement.  The degree confer date must be prior to the announcement close date.  

An appropriate CTI recommendation letter is not a personal recommendation.  This letter must be on official CTI school letter head, signed by the designated CTI point of contact, and certify/endorse that all CTI program requirements have been met (or would have been met effective as of 12/31/13).

Any person exercising the privileges of any of the following certificates: airline transport pilot certificate, commercial pilot certificate, private pilot certificate, recreational pilot certificate, flight instructor certificate (when acting as pilot in command if serving as a required pilot flight crewmember), flight engineer certificate, flight navigator certificate, or student pilot certificate. People exercising private pilot privileges under BasicMed (or exercising any pilot privilege in a balloon or glider) are not required to hold a medical certificate.

Except for a person employed by the FAA, a branch of the military services or the Coast Guard, a person acting as an air traffic control tower operator also must hold a medical certificate.

What class of medical certificate must I hold and how long is it valid?

View the full FAQ here.

You can find information about who must hold a medical certificate on our website.

Contact the National Park Service for information about how to obtain a clearance to fly a drone in national parks over towers.

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Response by the Federal Air Surgeon
To clarify that, if your most recent records on file with the FAA indicate that you were found ineligible to exercise airman privileges for medical reasons then, in the interest of public safety, you shouldn't go out right away and use your driver's license as medical qualification.

We understand that these conditions may not have been expected and may disappoint some people. That was not our intent, nor is it our intent that affected persons would have to maintain an airman medical certificate if they would rather use their current and valid U.S. driver's license to medically qualify as a sport pilot.

We ultimately concluded that, in those cases where the FAA has existing knowledge of medical ineligibility, we need the affected person to address it and, hopefully have it resolved. To meet the intent of the rule, the affected person should apply for reconsideration of their eligibility. In some denial cases, applicants simply may not have provided enough information to the FAA or may not have supplied information that the FAA may have requested. In certain other denial cases, applicants may not have exercised their appeal rights, which could have led to certification in some cases.

The FAA wants to see as many pilots as possible take advantage of this exciting new rule and looks forward to working with individuals seeking to exercise sport pilot privileges. We also intend to work with EAA, AOPA, and other industry groups toward that end.

On each AMCS data entry screen, there is a Navigation bar at the top as well as Next Page and Previous Page buttons at the bottom. Use these buttons to navigate forward and backward while entering data into the application. Using the provided navigation buttons ensures no data is lost.
 

Date of Issue
The date of issue on an airman certificate must correspond to the date the current Administrator signs it. To be valid, it must also be consistent with our current certificate format.

Employment Verification
You should not use the date of issue as employment verification. A certified copy of your complete airmen certification records will verify the date you got your mechanic certificate and rating(s).

Request a Copy of Your Records
To request a copy of your airman records, download and send this form or send a signed, written request with your:

• full name (as it appears on the certificate/please print),
• your date of birth,
• place of birth, social security number,
• certificate number,
• class of certificate,
• street address, city, state, and
• zip code

Mail to:
FAA Airmen Certification Branch
AFS-760
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

We will include an invoice stating the total charges due along with your airman file.

Date of Issue

The date of issue on an airman certificate must correspond to the date the current Administrator signs it. To be valid, it must also be consistent with our current certificate format.

Employment Verification

You should not use the date of issue as employment verification. A certified copy of your complete airmen certification records will verify the date you got your mechanic certificate and rating(s).

Request a Copy of Your Records

To request a copy of your airman records, download and send this form or send a signed, written request with your:

• full name (as it appears on the certificate/please print),
• your date of birth,
• place of birth, social security number,
• certificate number,
• class of certificate,
• street address, city, state, and
• zip code

Mail to:
FAA Airmen Certification Branch
AFS-760
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

We will include an invoice stating the total charges due along with your airman file.

Date of Issue
The date of issue on an airman certificate must correspond to the date the current Administrator signs it. To be valid, it must also be consistent with our current certificate format.

Employment Verification
You should not use the date of issue as employment verification. A certified copy of your complete airmen certification records will verify the date you got your mechanic certificate and rating(s).

Request a Copy of Your Records
To request a copy of your airman records, download and send this form or send a signed, written request with your:

• full name (as it appears on the certificate/please print),
• your date of birth,
• place of birth, social security number,
• certificate number,
• class of certificate,
• street address, city, state, and
• zip code

Mail to:
FAA Airmen Certification Branch
AFS-760
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

We will include an invoice stating the total charges due along with your airman file.

Due to the need to generate detailed noise results over large areas, noise modeling is the only practical way to accurately and reliably determine geospatial noise effects in the surrounding community when analyzing proposals related to aviation noise.

The many challenges and limitations to using noise measurements for evaluating airport vicinity noise are summarized below:

• Non-aircraft sound can have a large influence on noise monitoring data, which can be difficult to separate from aircraft noise during data post-processing.
• Long-term (e.g., year-long) noise monitoring requires regular maintenance and calibration of the individual noise monitors on a continuous, year-round basis, which has considerable costs.
• To ensure the same accuracy and fidelity of data generated by noise models, an extremely large number of noise monitoring locations is required. (e.g. tens of thousands of noise monitors, collecting year-round data in the vicinity of an airport would be needed to match the fidelity and accuracy of noise modeling).
• Noise monitoring data is not capable of analyzing either "what if" scenarios or proposed future action airport and air space scenarios

Proposed actions and decisions by FAA officials are subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The FAA is responsible for complying with the procedures and policies of NEPA and other environmental laws, regulations, and orders applicable to FAA actions. The FAA decision-making process must consider and disclose the potential impacts of a proposed action and its alternatives on the quality of the human environment. In meeting its NEPA obligations, the FAA should seek to achieve the policy objectives of 40 CFR § 1500.2 to the fullest extent possible. The FAA must integrate NEPA and other environmental reviews and consultations into agency planning processes as early as possible.

Environmental issues should be identified and considered early in a proposed action's planning process to ensure efficient, timely, and effective environmental review. Initiating the appropriate level of environmental review at the earliest possible time facilitates the NEPA process. Specific FAA actions subject to NEPA review can include, but are not limited to, grants, loans, contracts, leases, construction and installation actions, procedural actions, research activities, rulemaking and regulatory actions, certifications, licensing, permits, plans submitted to the FAA that require the FAA's approval, and legislation proposed by the FAA.

It is required by law. See 49 U.S.C. § 44809(a)(7). Recreational pilots may carry proof of The Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST) passage in an electronic or paper format.

Still can't find what you are looking for? Please feel free to contact the UAS Support Center for general questions and comments.

The FAA’s Reauthorization Act of 2018 introduced new rules for how, when, and where drones can be flown for recreational purposes (49 U.S.C. Section 44809 – referred to as the Exception for Limited Recreational Operations of Unmanned Aircraft). The law requires that all recreational flyers must pass an aeronautical knowledge.

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In order to make the test accessible and available to the largest viable audience, the FAA is seeking test administrators. The law permits the FAA, a community-based organization, or a person designated by the FAA Administrator to administer the test electronically.

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Current 333 exemption renewal requests will be processed under the FAA's new Special Authority for Certain Unmanned Systems, 49 USC 44807. Exemptions for operations that can be conducted under 14 CFR part 107 will not be renewed. Requests for small UAS operations that require waiver (e.g. night operations, operations over people, etc.) should be submitted as requests for waiver under part 107.

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No. However, prior military or civil aviation-related training may be helpful to new applicants preparing for the aeronautical knowledge test.

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No. Test administrators are required to issue random, alpha numeric tokens that exclude any personally identifiable information.

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To apply for a waiver through the Special Governmental Interest (SGI) process, you must be an existing Part 107 remote pilot with a current certificate OR a public agency with an existing Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA). If the public agency is requesting an SGI under their COA,  they must operate a UAS that is either owned by the public agency or leased to the public agency for a minimum of 90 days (See Title 49 USC 40102(a)(41)(c) and (d). If the aircraft is flown by a remote pilot in command under Part 107, the aircraft must be registered with the FAA.

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If they are not a government agency, meaning they are not recognized by their state as a political sub-division of the state, they cannot operate as a public aircraft operator.

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