On Oct 14, 5:24*pm, "BT" wrote:
I do not believe that FSDO would get involved in this manner.
It is more an agreement or arrangement between the airport operator (local
civil owner) and the club.

The FSDO "might" have some papers between them and that airport owner /
operator.

There are clubs in the Northeast that operate on grass next to a paved
runway but I do not know the distances involved, surely it is less than
250ft.

I find it interesting that you refer to the airport as a Class E airport.
Are you referring to the "airspace designation" over the airport? I see
where JWY is actually in Class G airspace with Class E beginning (proposed
altitude at 700ft AGL) above the airport. There is a proposal to change the
Class E airspace configuration to accommodate new SIAP into the airport. But
the airport itself still remains in Class B airspace.

Is the airport manager attempting to restrict your operations at the
airport?
Is there any reason you cannot operate from the paved surface?
Local powered traffic too busy to accommodate a launch or recovery?
Can you land on pavement and roll clear into the grass?

BT

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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



And of course if other operations don't have a letter of agreement but
operate in such a manner and they are pointed out to the FAA then
don't be shocked if that FAA representative asking for the LOA checks
with his peers at those other airports to see what is up.

I have nothing against the FAA enforcing rules, but just remember
where volunteering information or asking the wrong questions might get
you (Mmm Pegasus 3,000 hour limit, FCC radio fines in Texas, for
starters).

Darryl