FAAST Blast — Week of July 8-14, 2024
Biweekly FAA Safety Briefing News Update
New Map for Drone Pilots Makes Finding FAA-Recognized Identification Areas Easier
Summer is here! Sunny skies and good weather mean more outdoor activities, like flying your drone. Before you take flight, it’s important to be familiar with all FAA requirements, including Remote ID (faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id). All drones that require registration or that are registered must comply with Remote ID. Remote ID provides drone identification and location information through a broadcast signal while in flight. There are three ways to be remote ID compliant: (1) operate a drone with Standard Remote ID, (2) operate a drone with a Remote ID Broadcast Module, or (3) operate a drone without Remote ID in an FAA-Recognized Identification Area (FRIA).
Latest Pilot Minute Video Covers Weight Loss Medications
Pilots may wonder, “Can I take a weight loss drug and still fly?” The FAA allows multiple medications for weight loss, including some available over the counter and some categories of prescription diabetic drugs. In the latest episode of the Pilot Minute video series, Federal Air surgeon Dr. Susan Northrop explains how weight loss medication can be approved by your AME. If you have concerns about weight management, talk to your AME and visit the links in the video description. Go to bit.ly/FAAPilotMinute to watch this and other Pilot Minute videos.
Ground is Good
Learning to operate the airplane is only a small part of learning how to fly. There’s also aerodynamics, airspace, avionics, communications, navigation, medical factors, regulations, risk management, systems, weather, weight and balance, and much, much more. Some flight instructors treat ground school as an afterthought or something that can be delegated to a pre-packaged course of home study with no effort on the part of the flight instructor. If three-quarters — or more — of the job of teaching learners how to fly happens on the ground, then effective flight instruction must include effective ground instruction. Read about the importance of ground instruction, and how to be a (highly) effective ground instructor in “Ground is Good” at medium.com/faa/ground-is-good-521c5b79ae11 in the July/August 2024 issue of FAA Safety Briefing. See the entire Aviation Educatiors issue at www.faa.gov/safety_briefing.
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