Did they block off the sky too?
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NOTAM 3/3195
NOTAM Number : FDC 3/3195
Issue Date : October 04, 2013 at 2026 UTC
Type : Security
Plain Language text is not available for this NOTAM. The traditional NOTAM text is given below:
FDC 3/3195 ZMP PART 1 OF 3 ND..AIRSPACE GRAND FORKS AFB, ND..TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS. OCTOBER 12, 2013 LOCAL. PURSUANT TO 49 USC 40103(B), THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA) CLASSIFIES THE AIRSPACE DEFINED IN THIS NOTAM AS ‘NATIONAL DEFENSE AIRSPACE’. ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY OR WILLFULLY VIOLATES THE RULES CONCERNING OPERATIONS IN THIS AIRSPACE MAY BE SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CRIMINAL PENALTIES UNDER 49 USC 46307. PILOTS WHO DO NOT ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES MAY BE INTERCEPTED, DETAINED AND INTERVIEWED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT/SECURITY PERSONNEL. PURSUANT TO TITLE 14 CFR SECTION 99.7, SPECIAL SECURITY INSTRUCTIONS, ALL AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN AN AREA BOUNDED BY THE FOLLOWING COORDINATES: 480100N/0972331W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 285 DEGREE RADIAL AT 9.1 NM TO 475430N/0972331W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 243 DEGREE RADIAL AT 8.8 NM TO 475430N/0972701W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 246 DEGREE RADIAL AT 11 NM TO 480100N/0972701W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 280 DEGREE RADIAL AT 11.3 NM TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING UP TO AND INCLUDING 2400 FT MSL END PART 1 OF 3 1310120500-1310130459EST FDC 3/3195 ZMP PART 2 OF 3 ND..AIRSPACE GRAND FORKS AFB, ND..TEMPORARY FLIGHT EFFECTIVE 1310120500 UTC (0000 LOCAL 10/12/13) UNTIL 1310130459 UTC (2359 LOCAL 10/12/13). WITHIN AN AREA BOUNDED BY THE FOLLOWING COORDINATES: 480840N/0972230W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 317 DEGREE RADIAL AT 13.7 NM TO 474640N/0972230W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 207 DEGREE RADIAL AT 13.1 NM THEN CLOCKWISE ON A 11 NM ARC CENTERED ON 475740N/0972230W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 264 DEGREE RADIAL AT 7.7 NM TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING FROM AND INCLUDING 2400 FT MSL UP TO AND INCLUDING 18000 FT MSL EFFECTIVE 1310120500 UTC (0000 LOCAL 10/12/13) UNTIL 1310130459 UTC (2359 LOCAL 10/12/13). WITHIN AN AREA BOUNDED BY THE FOLLOWING COORDINATES: 475743N/0973834W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 263 DEGREE RADIAL AT 18.4 NM THEN COUNTERCLOCKWISE ON A 11 NM ARC CENTERED ON 475740N/0972230W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 264 DEGREE RADIAL AT 7.7 NM TO 475011N/0973420W OR THE GRAND FORKS /GFK/ VOR/DME 237 DEGREE RADIAL AT 17.2 NM TO 473527N/0981500W OR THE END PART 2 OF 3 1310120500-1310130459EST FDC 3/3195 ZMP PART 3 OF 3 ND..AIRSPACE GRAND FORKS AFB, ND..TEMPORARY FLIGHT DEVILS LAKE /DVL/ VOR/DME 132 DEGREE RADIAL AT 41.3 NM TO 474500N/0981500W OR THE DEVILS LAKE /DVL/ VOR/DME 122 DEGREE RADIAL AT 34.6 NM TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING FROM AND INCLUDING 9500 FT MSL UP TO BUT NOT INCLUDING 18000 FT MSL EFFECTIVE 1310120500 UTC (0000 LOCAL 10/12/13) UNTIL 1310130459 UTC (2359 LOCAL 10/12/13). EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED BELOW AND/OR UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY ATC: 1. ALL AIRCRAFT ENTERING OR EXITING THE TFR MUST BE ON A DISCRETE CODE ASSIGNED BY AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (ATC) FACILITY. 2. AIRCRAFT MUST BE SQUAWKING THE DISCRETE CODE AT ALL TIMES WHILE IN THE TFR. 3. ALL AIRCRAFT ENTERING OR EXITING THE TFR MUST REMAIN IN TWO-WAY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITH ATC. 4. MINNEAPOLIS CENTER, PHONE 651-463-5580, IS THE FAA COORDINATION FACILITY. END PART 3 OF 3 1310120500-1310130459EST
From 9500 ft elevation to 18,000 ft? That’s not going to bother anybody. I don’t have a sectional chart of Grand Forks handy but I’m guessing nobody really cares about that corridor anyway? But If I was going that way I guess an F-18 jockey wouldn’t mind showing me they way thru.
Translate this please into a mapped area of the country— all I can get is Grand Forks... which is South Dakota, but the 11 Nautical mile circle does not intersect over Mt Rushmore . So, is the airspace over Mt Rushmore closed....?!! Nutso.