On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:35:02 -0800 (PST), Charles Packer
wrote:

"Normally, the FAA asks
the Pentagon for use of offshore airspace
on a day-by-day or hour-by-hour basis."
What was he smoking?

It may be true, as you say, that airspace is under civilian control.
But the FAA did politely ask the military to release a couple of
routes in the Northeast (East?) over Thanksgiving, and the military
agreed. There is a plan to do the same over Christmas.

Also the military appears to have total control over all charted MOAs.


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