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Media Information

Media Registration Process

  1. Purchase an ARA Media License at www.rallylicense.com This will either be a single event or an annual license. If you choose a single event, you will be able to choose the specific event you will be working. If you choose an annual license, you will be able to choose any or all of the events you wish to attend.

  2. Roughly one month prior to the event, you will receive an email about applying for the upcoming event. That application will determine your approval level, as well as your media status for the event (restricted or unrestricted).

    1. This application will also be linked on the ARA Media page on the ARA Website.

    2. Once you have received approval for an ARA event in 2022, and you have an annual license, you will be given a code to by-pass the full application. (You will need to fill out part of the form, including the code, to apply for the event.)

  3. You will receive approval 10-14 days prior to the event.

  4. Media registration for each event will close 10 days prior to the start of the event. If you do not have your credentials, or those of your spotter or other team media in place, you will not be approved.

  5. Media communication for each event will happen through Telegram and Sportity.

  6. ARA Media and ARA Unrestricted Media will be required to have the RS Lite Tracking app in place during Recce and the Event

  7. If you have any questions, please email, call or text Jeremy Meyer (jeremy@usacnation.com or 218-341-6892), or use the Telegram app.

Event Media Applications Currently Open

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ARA Drone Policy

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Drone Usage:

 

The ARA has not allowed drones to be used in the past, however, they will be allowed on a limited basis starting in 2022. To be approved to man a drone at an ARA event, you will need the following:

 

  1. A copy of a valid FAA Drone Commercial Operator’s License must be provided to the ARA one week prior to the start of the event. Certificate must include your FAA number with proof of safety completion.

  2. Minimum of $500,000 in Drone Liability Insurance. The United States Auto Club must be included as an additional insured and a copy of the insurance certificate must be provide to the ARA prior to the start of the event.

  3. No use of smaller drones that do not need to be licensed are acceptable at ARA events.

  4. A list of approved Drone pilots will be given to event officials, and a letter of approval will be given by the ARA to the drone pilot for approval of that event.

  5. A drone may not be flown over crowds or spectator areas.

  6. A drone may not interfere with a competitor on stage, or event officials working the event, either on-stage or in public areas. You may pilot the drone above a car, but never in front of or in the vision of a moving competition or opening/sweep vehicle. Shots form above are acceptable.

  7. If an event official determines you are out of compliance or being unsafe, you will be asked to land the drone and may be removed as media from the event.

  8. If you do not have approval to use a drone at an ARA event, you will be removed from the event and fined $1,000. Your license will be revoked for the remainder of the year, and you will not be able to work as a media member for up to two years from the date of the incident.

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