Gary Evans wrote:
At 18:30 25 May 2006, Mike The Strike wrote:

It was unfortunate since we've had a good discussion
going on between
ASA and Luke AFB for three months and the persons complaining
didn't
bother to check with their own liaison personnel or
us before firing
complaints off in every direction - to the FAA, local
city managers and
the press.

For Region 9, we'd agreed to avoid tasking completely
in one MOA and to
avoid one sector of another one and requested in return
they keep
military aircraft above glider operating altitudes
for the three hours
or so on the four days we'll be in potential conflict
in the two
remaining segments. (For the last couple of days,
top of the boundary
layer has been below the MOA floor of 7,000 feet)
We'd also agreed to
use steering turns to move gliders further away from
training and
approach areas.

Rewards for this cooperation are threats to close down
our glider field
permanently and requests to the FAA to ban gliders

from MOAs

completely.

No good deed goes unpunished!

Mike




I would keep AOPA advised of any airport and/or MOA
threats coming out of Luke AFB. AOPA has the clout
of numbers to get FAA's attention. A military recommendation
to close MOA’s to any civilian aircraft is a serious
matter.



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