Yep... I think the problem is that "temporary" flight restrictions
around Washington are not actually "temporary" anymore...

--Dan


On Feb 3, 7:50 am, Ron Natalie wrote:
Dan wrote:
In reading the following account of a pilot's TFR bust near
Washington, it struck me as concerning that briefings cannot be
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act now that FSS has been
privatized. Has anyone else run into this issue?

http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/tfr.html

Reading stuff like this makes me glad that I have the XM downlink for
TFRs...

Yep they caught a ton of pilots just like that. We'd hear them being
chased down all the time. After much beating on NACO they finally
started charting the "supersize" P-40 boundaries as well as the ADIZ
on the charts.

I got into quite a heated discussion with the NACO reps on this who
claimed they had no precedent in putting temporary flight restrictions
on charts. I pointed out that not only had NOAA done so in the past,
they even issued a special "purple dot" issue of the sectional to
accomodate the TFR's over the DC area olympic venues.