On Jun 28, 9:43*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
With all the fires in the western states, dignitaries flying around, presidential campaigning and other activities occurring tis the season for many TFR's that we must avoid. *Critical for competitions, formal and informal, and recreational flying to examine every morning and during the day.

Here are a few links I have been using

http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.html- FAA list. *Provides links to graphical version overlay-ed on sectionals. *the SUA button, usefull for WINSCORE and flight computers, does not work 8-(

http://www.2ld.de/tfr2kml/- include the KML file in Google Earth. *Easy to visualize TFR, see exact location including ceiling and also has a time line feature to see if the TFR *expires during the day. *REMEMBER TFR's cannot be overflown in SSA sanctioned competitions, you will get a zero for the day, unless changed via a waiver from the SSA competition committee. *Requires manual refresh or restarting GE to get latest data.

http://sggate.arc.nasa.gov:9518/GoogleEarth/tfr.kml- From the FAA. *refreshes every 15 minutes. *No time line bar.

Lets be safe out there and give these TFR a wide berth, specifically if it is a fire fighting operation. *While we want to go out and have fun, we are just playing the fire fighting folks are trying to save land, structures, lives and their own skin. *We can always fly another day!

Ron Gleason

As well, if you join AOPA (Costello Insurance gave me a discount on my
policy that covers the cost of membership plus a few bucks), you get
TFR alerts by email. If you get as annoyed at the thought of being re