Well, given my antipathy to the unreasonable and uncompensated taking
of the public airspace by the TFR's in the first place my initial
response is to say, "here we go again"... I do see they have limited
this TFR to 5,000' AGL, which is semi reasonable... I would have set
the ceiling at 1000' and over a more limited area if I were the
administrator... The box over New Orleans is reasonable.. The blocked
off coastline is not... I do not see why the TFR has to cover tens of
thousands of square miles... Certainly there is not going to be such a
crowd of rescue aircraft throughout the area that an aircraft passing
through is going to be a safety threat... I see the interminable news
helicopters, who always get permission to fly over a sensitive area,
endlessly buzzing around at a 100 feet to be the far greater threat to
SAR aircraft than the fella who simply needs to pass through the area
on his way to somewhere else...


denny