Auto Renewal Information

You’ve asked and we’ve listened! NAAA now offers auto renewal for membership and NAAREF donations. When you sign up for auto renewal, NAAA will automatically charge the credit card on file every Sept. 1st. There are four ways to sign up for auto renewal:

1. When you receive your renewal statement in August, mark the box in the payment area for auto renewal. 
2. Renew your membership online and you’ll be asked during the process if you’d like auto renewal.
3. Call the NAAA office at 202-546-5722 and request auto renewal.
4. Return the membership form from the Summer and Winter 2016 Agricultural Aviation magazine issues and mark the box in the payment area for auto renewal.

NAAA membership is as important as ever as NAAA needs resources to continue pushing for stringent tower-marking requirements and to promote the safe integration of UAVs into the national airspace system (NAS) to ensure the safety of ag pilots (click here to view NAAA’s UAV safety campaign video). Similarly, NAAA has worked hard to make sure costly National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Pesticide General Permit (PGP) requirements don’t apply to agriculture, which NAAA members ranked as the second most important policy issue, just behind tower marking, in a recent survey.

 

NAAA continues to advocate daily on these and other important issues for the safety and continuity of the aerial application industry. An NAAA membership comes with numerous benefits whether you’re an operator, pilot or allied company including:

• Stay up to date on the latest regulations. You never know what the federal government will try to do next, and NAAA helps you stay up to date on all the latest laws affecting our industry so you can avoid hefty fines.
• Protection against unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations. NAAA vows to protect the interests of its members by working with policymakers and pursuing support for policies favorable to our industry—including the exemption of NPDES pesticide general permits, and as mentioned above, continuing to push for more stringent marking requirements for towers under 200 feet and ensuring the safe integration of UAVs into the NAS while proactively safeguarding low-level aviation. Your dues provide NAAA with the advocacy resources to foster support for aerial application interests and education of elected officials about the important role aerial applicators play in agricultural production and public health protection.
• NAAA has worked with its agricultural and public health allies to support H.R. 897, the Zika Vector Control Act, which would be a major first step toward permanently eliminating NPDES PGPs for our industry and recently helped it pass through the House of Representatives.
• NAAA has succeeded in placing tower-marking requirements in both the House and Senate FAA reauthorization bills, virtually ensuring that the marking of towers below 200 feet and the creation of a tower database becomes law in the near future.
• NAAA has ensured its members are exempt from the 19.4 cents (avgas) and 21.4 cents (Jet A) per gallon fuel tax, saving our industry roughly $20 million per year.
• UAV bill stuffers that you can use in the bills that you send to your customers to ensure UAV users take into account the safety of low-flying manned aircraft, such as ag aircraft, when operating UAVs.
• Receive relevant and valuable benefits such as access to the NAAA Member’s Only section of the website, the NAAA Media Relations Kit, the new Flying for Your Food brochure, and the 2017 NAAA Membership Directory, which will be chockfull of NAAA resources available to you, NPDES pesticide general permit compliance resources, and your one-stop shop to find aerial application parts, services, equipment, pilots and/or work in the industry. 
• Continue receiving this NAAA eNewsletter, which keeps you up-to-date between the published issues of Agricultural Aviation and contains significant information keeping you abreast of important things happening in the industry to help your bottom line as an ag pilot, operator, or if your business is aligned with the agricultural aviation industry. 
• Continually evolving education programs and services such as the Professional Aerial Applicators’ Support System (PAASS) that reduce aviation accidents and save lives. PAASS attendees can receive potential discounts through their insurance providers. PAASS and other NAAA education programs also qualify for continuing education units applicators use to renew their commercial pesticides licenses. 
• Reduced fees to attend the NAAA Convention for attendees and exhibitors.

You can read more about the benefits of NAAA Membership online. Your support of NAAA results in many significant benefits to the aerial application industry and you, such as advocacy and national representation, education and safety programs and the opportunity to network with fellow aerial applicators across the country. We are just a phone call or email away to answer your questions!  Contact the NAAA office at (202) 546-5722 or renew online today! Thank you for your continued support.