Holy S$&! everybody, calm down. You LITERALLY just send an email to 9-AVS-AFG-LODA@faa.gov with
Instructor:
Address:
Email:
Pilot Certificate:
CFI Certificate:
Acft Regis:
Acft Make/Model:
It takes like five seconds. Then you wait a few days for your approval. Then you are done. No forms, no nothing.
Was it unnecessary? Probably. Does it increase safety? Nope. Is it worth the huge uproar? Probably not. We have more important things in which to plant our flag in GA. If the process was more complicated or took longer, Id still be out there with my pitchfork too. But it was so easy to get a LODA, like ridiculously easy.