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Proposal Project Team" have been ignored for the last two and a half
years, and the FAA has continuod to govern through exemption
instead of changing the law.
Your help is needed at this time because tandem jumping has Srown
into a multi-million dollar business which has suffered unreasonable
losses in time and money due to:
1) The fact that the tenuousness of doing business under an
exemption, and being classified as "experimental", has discouraged
investments in the tandem jumping industry.
2) If the exemption were not renewed or it was rescinded, future
students would be denied the benefits of using the safest method
of making a parachute jump, needlessly endangering their lives.
3) The exemption not being renewed before it expired.
After twelve years and millions of tandem jumps, tandem jumping is
no longer an "experiment". With nearly three quarlers of a million
tandem jumps being made annually, we are generating hundreds of
millions of dollars in revenue. These thousands of business people
need relief from having to conduct business under an exemption, and
they need the protection of a change to FAR Part 105 that will allow
tandem jumping and related businesses to flourish.
Please initiate an investigation as to why this promised change has
not occurred (after 12 years), and take the necessary action to bring
this needed change in the law to fruition.
Thanking you in advance for your assistance, I look forward to
hearing from you regarding this matter.
Respectfully yours,