The battle for Arlington Airport begins?

C J Campbell wrote:
"Paul Adriance" wrote in message
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You know, maybe you should check a few things out before panicking.

NASCAR

likes airports and they like having their tracks close to an airport.

They like them because the TFR is a non issue for them, they are excempt.


Yes, there is the stadium TFR, but those TFRs allow traffic that are

landing

or departing from an airport. Boeing Field does not close when there is

a

game in Seattle. Neither does Daytona close during the race there.

To commercial traffic under ATC control, Arlington doesn't even have a
tower, and only has a localizer IFR approach. 90% of our traffic is GA

and

there are no regularly scheduled air transport operations that I'm aware

of.


During games Boeing Field is open to all traffic, not just commercial
traffic. The general stadium TFR notam does not specify commercial traffic,
nor does it specify that aircraft arriving at or departing from an airport
has to be under ATC control. All it says is that traffic has to be arriving
at or departing from the airport in order to go through the TFR. There are
no other requirements -- no flight plan, no ATC control, no commercial
requirement, nothing.

I am curious who told you otherwise.


It is going to work really great if they have a event scheduled at the same time
as the Arlington EAA flyin. This could be the end of one of the best flyins in
the country.

Jerry