Posted on 07/08/2010 12:51:00 PM PDT by grjr21
Las Vegas will essentially be closed to general aviation pilots trying to fly into the area for parts of July 8 and 9. A 19-hour presidential temporary flight restriction will shut down all three major GA airports in the area: McCarran International, Henderson Executive, and North Las Vegas.
AOPA President Craig Fuller has reached out to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano once again to reiterate the negative economic impact these TFRs have on the local economies and the need for GA to be represented in the TFR planning process.
“In February 2010, a much less restrictive TFR was established over the Las Vegas area that resulted in a loss of commerce in excess of $700,000. With all three airports in the Las Vegas area off limits to GA aircraft, this TFR will have a much larger impact.”
The TFR will prohibit local aerial tour operators, including those who provide overflights of the Grand Canyon, from conducting business during one of their busiest times of the year.
In the past, presidential TFRs had included cutouts for flight training and other local operations and gateway airports that permitted pilots who went through security checks to fly into and out of the TFR. The TFR over Las Vegas offers no such mitigation.
The 30-nautical-mile-radius TFR will be in effect from 4:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on July 8 until 11:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on July 9. An inner 10-nm-radius GA no-fly zone encompasses all three of the major GA airports, completely shutting them down to GA traffic—VFR and IFR—for 19 hours. The City Hall Complex Heliport, University Medical Center-Southern Nevada Heliport, and Voc Tech Heliport also lie within the no-fly zone.
“AOPA understands the complexities involved in security planning in today’s environment. We make every effort to educate our members about possible airspace restrictions,” Fuller said. “However, a blanket prohibition over the Las Vegas area for 19 hours will impose unnecessary economic hardships on a region that has already been disproportionately impacted. We urge you to reconsider the restrictions contained in this TFR and work with stakeholders and other federal agencies to develop alternative procedures that will ensure the necessary security of the President, without unduly restricting general aviation aircraft.”
Does Zero just love sticking it to LV. Does the ban also apply to “whales” flying into LV on their own planes?
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The King is landing. Is he that afraid of the American people?
I’m sure Zero just hates general aviation. He’s probably ok with GA as far as his Chicago buddies are concerned but not to broader GA traffic.
Remember how liberals would bitch and moan whenever Bush would travel anywhere? Whining about how it inconvenienced them and cost the taxpayers money, etc. Now that the King is traveling, everything is A-OK ...
Well, this should be convenient for the thousands of people that checked out of their hotels to go home and then can’t get a room because its booked by some one who can’t get to Vegas. How many people can an airport sleep?
AVIATION PING
Hopefully, Nevadans will remember in November.
Vegas needs to tell the anti-Vegas racist to take a hike, get lost, beat it. They should shut down the airport to Air Farce One.
You just can’t make this stuff up. ZERO HAS GOT TO GO. I could understand a one hour TFR while the idiot lands and unload the trash from AF1...but come on.
Has any other President taken these kind of liberties with our liberties?
Too easy: AOPA are just a bunch of racists who want to see Obama assassinated.
THE “ONE” screws over many general aviation airports by having them shut down whenever he makes his appearance in metro areas around the country. All of which costs untold millions of dollars in lost business to those affected airports.
If you want to know future Obama visits to areas around the country and restrictions to airspace go to this public website:
http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.html
Look for Type: VIP.
that guy in Texas who flew into the IRS building has ‘em rattled
Obama’s FAA has had General Aviation in their gunsights for a long time.
If you can afford to operate your own plane, you are too wealthy for these socialists.
But BO said that you can’t be going to LV when you don’t have any money, and right now the gov’t has no money.
Winston Churchill had one body guard with him as he walked the streets of London and the UK during WWII. Hitler had up to ten thousand SS troops as special detail to guard him and secure the areas Hitler traveled in. This long ground time restriction for the POTUS aircraft is a clear sign where America is headed. Wake up America before it is too late.
The POS is probably getting so many death threats, the only way they can protect his sorry a$$ is to just shut everything down.
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