It may be of interest to some to watch the happenings of what is going on
wrt Luke AFB in Arizona and their impression of our holding a contest here
for 6 days that will involve traversing some MOA's. It seems that their
commander pretty much feels that we really don't belong there and are a
clear safety threat to their pilots and aircraft and are creating a large
burden on their ability to train their pilots.

Considering MOA's are a substantial portion of our states airspace it
results in a perceived if not certain conflict of interest between the
government and cross country pilots. Several other contests that I have
been a part of included MOA's e.g. Littlefield and Hobbs.

Our local Phoenix newspaper has interviewed the Luke commander and he has
been anything but kind in his evaluation of the matter:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/p...light24Z2.html

Casey Lenox
Phoenix