Then don’t ask for permission.
I wonder if they will arrest people trying to take photos, or perhaps worse...
First mistake: Asking permission!
Since when is the airspace over the Gulf of Mexico closed to General Aviation...as long as you are not flying over some super-secret Military Installation, etc? File a Flight Plan from New Orleans to some destination, the route to which JUST HAPPENS to take you OVER the location of the oil rig.
You flies over; you takes your photos, and you changes your flight plan to cancel your previous destination and return to base. Besides........any married man knows; it’s much easier to ask forgiveness (if necessary) than it is to ask PERMISSION!
The media will be much easier to control if the FCC gets to distribute or not distribute subsidies to them depending on whether they are properly compliant. < /bitter cynicism>
Is there any doubt that there is a media cover up?
Since when does BP control airspace?
My BS meter pegged.
Is there a restriction on General Aviation (GA)? If so, on who’s authority was it issued?
They should just go in without permission. If they get arrested it will be a massive story.
NYT - how about that?
Simple solution. Make one of the home made balloons with a camera attachment tether it along the shore, send it up 90,000 feet you will cover 100s of sqr miles. It is a $200 solution. If the feds shoot it down it is a huge story.
You think the NYT is finally getting it? Probably not....they didn’t ‘get’ that the Nazi’s were killing jews by the millions either...until it was too late.
The article is definately scary to anyone that’s paying attention. This is coming from the top down....from OBAMA!
A very bad moon is rising over this country.
Bush would have never treated the citizens of the USA like this, thats all I can say.
Welcome to the 0 police state.
A BP contractor answers the phone at the Coast Guard office?
“Make no mistake, we’ve been in charge since Day One,” Zero.
BP has no power to stop the media from investigating, flying over, taking pictures, etc. Unless, of course, the Obama Administration is giving them cover.
I have heard from a family friend in LA that it is so much worst than anything shown on the media and that the rest of the U.S. isn’t getting the true picture. If the media was worth its salt, they would find a way to fly over or take pictures where they aren’t allowed to be. Isn’t that called Investigative Journalism? The WH is getting flack so they are keeping it more covered up. I predict in the next 6-12 months a “scientific report” will be released showing the gulf is more healthy and all is well. Yeah, right.
What we have seen (or permitted to see) so far is probably just the tip of the ice berg.