Sat, Jun 21, 2003
Sensitive Presidential Visit, Pilots Need To Exercise Extreme
Care
Pilots operating in the Mid-Atlantic region will
need to pay extra attention to the area around Camp David on Monday
and Tuesday, June 23 and 24. The FAA has published a notam
expanding the P-40 prohibited area to a 10-nm radius. It extends up
to but not including 18,000 feet. The TFR will be in effect from
2155 local on Monday, June 23, until 1440 local on Tuesday, June
24.
While complying with temporary flight restrictions is always
important, this one is especially so. Security officials have
informed AOPA that this visit to Camp David is highly sensitive and
that enforcement actions for violations will be severe in the
extreme. Military patrol aircraft have shoot-down authority.
All aircraft operations within a 0-5 nm radius below 12,500 feet
are prohibited, except as described in the notam.
Aircraft operating within a 5-10 nm radius must be on an active
IFR or VFR flight plan, must be in constant radio contact with air
traffic control (ATC), and must be transmitting a discrete
ATC-assigned transponder code. All aircraft operations are limited
to aircraft arriving or departing local airfields. Aircraft may not
loiter.
Flight training, practice instrument approaches, aerobatic
flight, glider operations, parachute operation, ultralight, hang
gliding, balloon operations, agriculture/crop dusting, animal
population control flight operations, and commercial cargo carrier
operations that fail to meet or exceed the FAA's domestic security
inspection program standards are not authorized. All aircraft
departing from private airports/airfields must be on a heading away
from the center of the P-40 airspace.
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