Questions tagged [faa]

Questions concerning the rules, regulations and procedures governed by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the largest modern transportation agency and a governmental body of the United States with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation in that nation as well as over its surrounding international waters. Its powers include the construction and operation of airports, air traffic management, the certification of personnel and aircraft, and the protection of U.S. assets during the launch or re-entry of commercial space vehicles. Powers over neighboring international waters were delegated to the FAA by authority of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

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Are sites that give unfiltered ADS-B data legal?

Are plane tracking services based on Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) transmissions that do not honor the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Limited Aircraft Data Display (LADD) program, such as Airplanes.Live or…
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Do you need approval from the FAA for amateur model rocket launches?

I'm building a model rocket that will probably go a maximum of 30km. Do I need special permission from the FAA to do this? I'm in Delaware, U.S.A., and this is a Class 1 Model Rocket. If I do, where can I get started? And do I need a licence or just…
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What license do I need to transmit on an aviation radio?

I've asked this question over on Aviation Stack Exchange, but nobody over there knew the answer, so I thought I'd ask here. I'm a student pilot. I know that my pilot's license also acts as permission to use the radio in an airplane. But, I recently…