Saturday, August 09, 2014

Temporary flight restrictions over Nantucket through August 24th

(Aug. 8, 2014) Temporary flight restrictions have been issued for the skies over Nantucket from August  9th  through August 24th  due to President Barack Obama's vacation on Martha's Vineyard.

Nantucket Flying Association president Chris McLaughlin said flight restrictions are imposed for a 30-mile radius of a president's location, and Nantucket falls just within the 30-mile ring.

According to the restrictions, flights within the airspace must be on either visual flight rules or an IFR flight plan, and talking to and obeying air-traffic control. Anything that would be considered loitering, such as sightseeing, flight-training activities, aerial photography, etc. are prohibited until President Obama returns to Washington, D.C.

 "Essentially, you have to be going somewhere," not just doodling around," McLaughlin said.

Temporary flight restriction violations are taken very seriously by both Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration, he added.

"Pilots should be very careful not to fall foul of the conditions attached to the restrictions, unless they want to see what F-15 Eagles and unmarked Blackhawk helicopters look like from up close," he said.

For aircraft flying to or from Martha's Vineyard itself, there is another whole layer of complexity and security and this is described in the body of the restriction.

- Source: http://www.ack.net


Courtesy of Nantucket Flying Association 
 Temporary flight restrictions have been issued for the skies over Nantucket from today through Aug. 24 due to President Barack Obama's vacation on Martha's Vineyard.

2 comments:

  1. This president shouldn't take another vacation before he becomes a private citizen. Not one day.

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  2. America's emperor further living it up at taxpayer expense. Martha's Vineyard is apparently clueless to the catastrophic damage he has done to this nation.

    And he's Muslim too and not born in the United States of America.

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