New Rocketry Regulations!

Hi,

Well they are out and OUT OF DATE already! While I applaud the FAA's effort to update the regulations pertaining to personal rocketry in America, they miss the boat once again!

1. The new regulations terminology is patently offensive to Rocketeers! The only thing amateur about rocketry is the individuals who wrote the regulations. Rocketeers are no more amateurs than NASA but.....that is also another subject!
2. The new regulations do not develop a clear pathway from no rocketry to building and flying manned space vehicles! They are organizational and consumer rocketry oriented instead of individual oriented!
3. The new regulations were developed under the saying: "To Dictate and Endanger!" When the purpose of having organization (government) is summed up in five words: "To Serve and To Protect!" What this means is: To Serve = create the environment, infrastructure, and organization for the individual to have the most freedom in the pursuit of happiness (rocketry), and To Protect = create the minimum, practical, and functional environment, infrastructure, and organization that protects persons and property from damage.
4. The new regulations leave loopholes or gaps in scope and vision that put persons and the public at risk and in danger! Parts of the new regulations that the FAA has created do not have policies to cover them yet, but are deliberately designed to hinder or block individuals by creating a path to accomplishment that is impossible to achieve because it would fatigue the individual with the bureaucracy.
5. The new regulations were developed by a process by which to comment or become involved in developing the new regulations was only limited to certain individuals that the FAA wanted to be involved with. I have been asking for AT LEAST ten years to comment on and be involved with updating the regulation, and never was contacted or informed!
6. The new regulations block an individuals freedom of association with other Rocketeers around the world!
7. The new regulations open the door for KNOWN individuals in the FAA to abuse the new policies on information requirements, to spy on certain individuals, block the individuals attempts to pursue their rocketry goals.
8. The new regulations are written in such a way that makes laws respective of certain religious beliefs and not inclusive of all religious beliefs. They discriminate on the bases of religion!

Well, I could go on and will.....looks like it is the FAA's turn at a lawsuit like the BATFE is in with rocketry! Another bunch of amateurs creating regulations with NO CLUE as to what they are doing!

I have no problem with safety and organization, the government should NEVER SAY NO, but rather say OK, how can we help you DO THIS SAFELY! It is all in the approach......and their approach SUCKS, they are the AMATEURS!

Join the Universal Rocketry Association and let's HELP the FAA develop some guidelines with vision and inclusion!