Wishing you all the best. These thoughts come to mind.


Approach - Logic, and Arguments to be offered:

Be there, professionally attired with clean haircuts
and make a clear, reasoned presentation with good demeanor.
Anger gets nothing and must be hidden.

Prepare a simple quite brief position paper to be submitted
at the meeting into the FAA record following clearly
given oral statements of your needs and position.
Make no offers of any additional procedure or equipment
not required of pilots of all aircraft. For example,
there is not a requirement for radio in aircraft, so
don't offer it.

In that initial paper, essentially use logic; keep
it simple, keep it brief. Offer to operate as any
other aircraft at the airfield.

No need to detail the history of hostilities and present
no argumentum ad hominem.

Hold back a trump card, to be used in a later written
argumentarium on 'errors of fact,' for the event that
such may become necessary.

The later line argument, which one may cite, is operations
procedures as cited in Airman's Information Manual
on operations at non-tower controlled airports.

One may then cite into FAA the record, argument that
procedures which should be operated by are those defined
in the FAA Airman's Information Manual.

Sometimes, it is better to not offer all one's defensive
arguments until the opponent or agency advocating an
adverse but unconventional procedure has made their
first volley.

Thus, guard your hand.

If one offers all their arguments in round one, then
the initial ensuing FAA directive or finding can include
their parry incorporated into the initial FAA written
finding and they will be holding all the cards stacked
to their position without opportunity for useful additional
argument. Thus, hold back and use AIM for the come
back in round two.

Truly wishing you the best.

Dancing on clouds,

Keep it up!

Jim Culp USA
GatorCity Florida