The FAA's B4UFLY smartphone app will
provide situational awareness of flight restrictions – including
locations of airports, restricted airspace, special use airspaces,
and temporary flight restrictions – based on a user's current or
planned flight location. In order to maintain NAS safety in
proximity to airports, air traffic control personnel would need
certain basic information about a UAS operator's intended flight in
order to assess whether the UAS may disrupt or endanger manned air
traffic.
To date, more than 300,000
people have registered their UAS in accordance with the small UAS
registration requirement that went into effect on December 21,
2015. Since these operators are specifically hobby or recreational
flyers, and the B4UFLY app was developed specifically for hobby or
recreational flight, we are comfortable with a benchmark estimate
that perhaps a quarter of them (50,000) will eventually download
B4UFLY.
$4,680
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Erik Amend 202 267-8282
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
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