[TowerTalk] FAA regulations for tower permit

[David Gilbert]

That's a good link, but it is the FCC version of the FAA calculator.  It 
might be more convincing to use the FAA "No Notice Required Tool", which 
is at:

https://www.oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/gisTools/gisAction.jsp?action=showNoNoticeRequiredToolForm

The text of the standard FAA regulations that specifies setbacks from 
airports, etc is at:

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/12feb20041500/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/janqtr/14cfr77.13.htm

The above link is part of a broader set of regulations found here:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_04/14cfr77_04.html

If you were located such that you were required to give notice, or if 
the FAA should for any reason want you to give notice of your intent to 
erect a tower, you would do so by filing FAA Form 7460-1 available at:

http://forms.faa.gov/forms/faa7460-1.pdf

I just went through the same thing last month, and I wouldn't know any 
of the stuff above if it weren't for the help of several fine people who 
responded to my call for help on the local club reflector.  I also live 
25 miles from the nearest airport ... up against a mountain that would 
take out any airplane before my tower would.  My local county zoning 
office insisted that I supply a "letter from the FAA" saying that I 
wouldn't infringe upon any airspace or special flight plans, even though 
the complete FAA regulations are quoted verbatim in the county's own 
zoning regulations.  When I asked the zoning folks where I would get 
such a letter or what it would look like, they literally had no idea.  I 
ended up simply coming back with a hard copy of the regulations and a 
printout of the "No Notice Required Tool" from the FAA website and I got 
my permit within a few days.

Good luck es 73,
Dave  AB7E



Michael Keane K1MK wrote:
> Go here:
> <http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/towairSearch.jsp>
>
> enter you info and print out the TOWAIR determination for them.
>
> 73,
> Mike K1MK
>
> At 05:54 PM 7/18/2007, Rob Katz wrote:
>   
>> I am in the process of obtaining a permit to put up a 70 foot tower,
>> and I have been requested to "Provide evidence that the tower
>> complies with FAA regulations and does not present a danger to
>> navigation."
>>
>> I'm 25 miles from the nearest airport, surrounded by trees as high or
>> higher than the tower, and less than a mile from three broadcast
>> towers that are hundreds of feet high.  My county planners should
>> (hopefully!) be receptive to these "common sense" arguments (they
>> have been so far), as long as I can provide a little bit of meat as
>> well.
>>
>> Can somebody point me to specific FAA regulations that I can quote
>> that say that I'm OK since since I'm farther than XXX miles from an
>> airport, under XXX feet high, etc.
>>
>> Thanks and 73,
>>     Rob, KA1ARB
>> --
>> Rob Katz, Director
>> Legacy Center, Inc.
>>
>> (919) 678-6000 x106
>> (919) 678-6015 fax
>> rob.katz at TheLegacyCenter.com
>> www.TheLegacyCenter.com
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