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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/27/2019 12:35 PM, Fred Stone
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Just
a “heads-up” of what is probably coming to FCC Rules.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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SWODXA [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:swodxa-bounces@swodxa.org">mailto:swodxa-bounces@swodxa.org</a>] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Peter Meyer via SWODXA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 27, 2019 12:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:swodxa@swodxa.org">swodxa@swodxa.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Swodxa] New FAA regulations requires
marking towers under 200 feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I
read this in one of my several aviation magazines. It
seems that the FAA has revised its regulations and now
requires ANYONE with a tower taller than <u>50 feet </u>and
not connected to your house, garage or within your
immediate yard must either paint it, install a beacon,
and/or register it with the FAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">This
ostensibly would include anyone with a tower located in,
or proximate to a field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Since
this seems to be one that slipped by the ARRL, you may
want to contact your representative to have them explain
and understand how this one slipped past the goalie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">73/DX
- Pete N0FW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">New
FAA regulations require towers under 200′ to be marked
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">New <a
href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C3b8f9d2f799f4becd44708d7058183cb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636983926122910511&sdata=yA%2BbHM0%2FZ9pq%2FqswPoOKjS39k5LYWaBLfeZ1MWdF5uM%3D&reserved=0"
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style="color:red">FAA</span></a> regulations
require landowners to mark any towers between 50′
and 200′ on their property, as well as include the
towers in a new database the FAA is developing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Previously,
towers under 200′ were not subject to any federal
marking requirements, according to officials with
the <a
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style="color:red">National Agricultural
Aviation Association</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
new requirements are due to provisions in the FAA
Extension, Safety and Security Act of 2016 and the
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Under
the provisions in these laws, meteorological
evaluation towers (METs) meeting the requirements
stipulated in the bills must be both marked and
logged in to the FAA database. Communication
towers of the same size have the option to be
either be marked or logged in the FAA database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 requires this
database to be functional by October 2019. The FAA
is also finalizing the marking requirements for
these towers, but they are expected to be similar
to the standards found in <a
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Advisory Circular 70/7460-1L</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Officials
with the National Agricultural Aviation
Association encourage landowners to preemptively
mark their towers and voluntarily log towers on
their property into the <a
href="https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/dof/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:red">FAA’s Daily Digital Obstacle
File</span></a> (Daily DOF). The Daily DOF is
an obstacle database that contains mostly
obstructions above 200′, with obstructions below
200′ submitted on a voluntary basis. The Daily DOF
gives an obstruction’s location, height, and type
of marking (if any). Information on the tower’s
owner or property owner is not asked for or
publicly given.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Association
officials note that since 2008 there have been 22
tower-related agricultural aircraft accidents
resulting in nine fatalities. The number of
accidents and fatalities is even higher when other
low-level operations, such as EMS-Medevac
operations, are included.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">An
NAAA analysis of accidents from 2008 to 2018
across all sectors of general aviation found there
were 40 tower-related accidents and incidents
resulting in 36 fatalities. The data also shows
many of those general aviation aviators did not
collide with the main body of the obstruction
itself, but the extremely difficult to see guy
wires supporting the structure, illustrating the
importance of installing high-visibility guy wire
sleeves or spherical ball markers, officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img
id="_x0000_i1025"
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meteorological evaluation towers must now be marked
under new federal requirements. The arrow points out
the almost invisible guy wires that pose such a risk
to general aviation pilots. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">North
Dakota farmer and aerial applicator Brian Rau has
a 96′ RTK tower on his property. Short for “real
time kinematic,” RTK towers supplement the GPS
systems of automated ground-based farm equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">As
an aerial applicator, Rau knows the importance of
having such towers both marked and logged into
appropriate FAA databases, regardless of legal
requirements. He added florescent ball markers
within the structure’s skeleton soon after it was
converted from a communications tower to an RTK
tower. This year Rau took the additional step of
providing the coordinates of his tower to the
FAA’s Obstacle Data Team for inclusion in the
Daily DOF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“Seeing
the growth of communication towers in North Dakota
and across the county, I knew it was important to
both mark and properly log the tower,” Rau said.
“Submitting the tower to be included in the FAA’s
Daily Digital Obstacle File only took minutes and
was well worth a few moments of my time.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">From
a safety perspective, being transparent about the
existence of low-level obstacles is vital to
agricultural pilots and other aircraft flying in
the airspace between zero and 400′, such as police
and first responder aircraft, aerial firefighters
and pipeline patrol pilots, NAAA officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
FAA’s Digital Obstacle File (DOF) provides
information about potential obstacles in pilots’
flight path before they take off. Once pilots
download the FAA’s Digital Obstacle File or Daily
DOF, they can import it into Geographic
Information Systems applications, such as
agricultural aviation applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">FAA
Advisory Circular 70/7460-1L on obstruction
marking and lighting details the ways different
types of obstructions may be marked. The document
provides specifications on lighting systems,
colors and light intensities. As an alternative to
lighting, the document also explains tools for the
“unlighted marking” of obstructions. This includes
paint colors and patterns, as well as
specifications for guy wire sleeves and
high-visibility spherical markers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Rau
chose the latter option for marking his RTK tower.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“The
ball markers seemed the easiest for an existing
galvanized tower, and they really improved the
visibility of the tower,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“Aerial
applicators have been at the forefront of ensuring
a safe airspace for low-flying pilots for years,”
said NAAA Executive Director Andrew Moore. “We
encourage farmers, landowners and tower companies
to familiarize themselves with the dangers of
unmarked, low-level towers. Towers in and around
productive farmland may prevent a crop from being
treated by air if it is too difficult or unsafe
for an ag pilot to treat. As such, due
consideration must be given to locating any type
of tower on ag land. If a tower’s construction is
imminent or already exists, it is highly
encouraged that preemptive compliance with the
forthcoming FAA regulations required by Congress
occur.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In
addition to the human cost, a precedent has been
established increasing the likelihood that
landowners and tower manufacturers could be held
financially liable for tower-related accidents,
officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In
2014, a <a
href="https://www.agaviation.org/steveallensettlement"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:red">milestone court settlement</span></a> was
reached when a group of defendants representing
tower manufacturing, wind energy, land-owning and
farming interests agreed to pay $6.7 million to
the family of agricultural aviator Steve Allen to
settle a wrongful death action brought against the
tower entities for failing to mark a 197′
meteorological evaluation tower or make Allen
aware of its location prior to his fatal collision
with the tower in 2011. From eyewitness accounts,
it was clear Allen never saw the unmarked tower
before he struck it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Landowners
and farmers can submit an obstruction to the FAA’s
Daily Digital Obstacle File by emailing the
tower’s height and coordinates to <a
href="mailto:9-AJV-532-OBSTData-REQ@faa.gov"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:red">9-AJV-532-OBSTData-REQ@faa.gov</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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