What do you expect from someone who (reportedly) said "...they have to
go where the wind is."

We know where the REAL 'wind' is!

Eric Greenwell wrote:
Kilo Charlie wrote:
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.

The Region 8 contests have used MOA airspace every year for decades, for
both regional and national contests. In our area, the military's major
concern is conflicts on the low level routes, which are mostly outside
the MOA's, and we get a briefing on these before each contest.


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