Posted on 08/04/2025 11:42:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
If, God forbid, there is another attempt on Trump, the NOTAM may need to include a paragraph on Deadly Force Authorized inside a certain radius.
“Is there a penalty for flying into restricted airspace?”
Possible fines and losing license. Depends on circumstances.
“I would think that anyone who has a small plane near Bedminster knows that Trump lives there even through he is not there all the time.”
TEMPORARY Flight Restriction.
What is legal one day may be illegal the next.
I see the woke haven't yet gotten to that one...
Charge the GA pilots the cost to deploy the fighter jets like rescue choppers and I’ll bet way more start watching for TFRs prior to their joyrides. No excuse for that. Bedminster, NJ and Sterling, VA should be well known to pilots by now. Allentown, PA was there as well the same day if they bothered to easily look up the published TFRs.
Thanks for the info. If Trump was there almost all the time, private pilots would know to avoid that airspace. Since Trump is only there once in a while, it seems to me all the more reason to check before taking off.
I guess it’s possible that the status of the airspace could be changed after a private pilot takes off. If that happened, then it would not be his fault.
They need to shoot one or two down and the flights would stop very quickly and there would be no repeat offenders.
Maybe one “shoot down” would cure the problem?
Oh, they did. It was changed to "Notices to Air Missions". The Trump administration changed it back.
I can speak to that. I used to know some amateur pilots who got up only a few times per year and often flew around the same areas. A pilot in that situation not looking to see if a TFR is in place might be like a car driver who lives near the end of a dead end street not looking for other cars when leaving the driveway.
But of course they did. /s
Good analogy. Most of these instances are just an innocent pilot making an error, nothing nefarious.
Most of these instances are just an innocent pilot making an error, nothing nefarious.
Let’s try another angle. You know the Deep State would do anything to rid themselves of President Trump. They would work any angle they could.
So why wouldn’t they do a few probing, seemingly innocent flights into the airspace in Bedminster?
When you have an enemy, you probe their defenses.
Yes. Two F-16s cross in front of you.
That’s an excellent idea! We should murder some hapless pilot who screwed up as he’s flying his Cessna 150. That really made the Cubans day to act that way. It’s not really an American value.
A hapless pilot ... with a pilot license.
Notice to Airpeople (NOTAPs)............Unless they crash........
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