On Oct 14, 7:40*am, wrote:
I'm posting this to see if we can help a friend. *If you can please
drop her a line at WalkerCL at AOL.com

If you received this email from me then you are a friend to me and/or
a general aviation and soaring. I am asking you to help me, please.

* I have been and am presently fighting a battle for glider operations
at Midway Regional (JWY) a Class E Airport. I have an appointment to
speak to the Director of the Southwest Region, Airports Division. He
is the person in charge of making a ruling on this matter. He has
requested that I bring an example of a Letter of Agreement between any
FSDO (Flight Standards District Office) and any operator having
surface operations on other than the hard surface runway. Glider
operations would be great, but balloon operations, ultralight, or
parachute operations would be wonderful as well. Anything, as long as
the ground operations are outside of the hard surface runway. I have
researched on my computer until my eyes are bad. Please help me. Think
of anywhere you know of where they are operating or staging within
250' of the runway. Do they have an LOA? Can we access that?

* I would not ask for your help if there was any other way. Please see
what you can find and help me with this. I am sorry to be asking for
this, but I am grateful for your help.

Yours,

Carol

I know of glider operations that routinely land and sometimes takeoff
using grassy areas next to runways. I've never heard of anyone
needing to get a Letter of Agreement with the FAA for these types of
ops. I guess to me it was always common sense. The glider clubs use
that area more or less at their own risk but they know the condition
and it keeps gliders out of the way of power traffic. I guess we
always figured you didn't need an LOA for common sense...sorry that
you've gotten to this point.