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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums12 planes violated the Trump TFR last weekend
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local-govt--politics/feds-planes-violated-trump-air-space-over-weekend/cJ4hcf9SiyxuWtKOiUWf6H/TFR means Temporary Flight Restriction, and you can read about the TFRs here: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2017-01-20/feds-outline-tfr-plans-trump-visits-mar-lago
They have a 30-nautical-mile radius airspace restriction around Trump's pleasure palace, with a near-absolute 10-nm radius no-fly zone in the center. Business jets can fly into Palm Beach International, but they have to be cleared at one of five "gateway airports" - Westchester County, Teterboro, Washington Dulles, Orlando International or Fort Lauderdale International Airport - before flying to Palm Beach.
So far, Trump has cost the Palm Beach aviation community a quarter-million dollars, and he's only been president five weeks.
This country is so screwed.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)in an upcoming week or so: http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.html The ones listed as "VIP" are for SCROTUS or Pence.
Suburban Warrior
(405 posts)Lantana, Fla. President Donald Trump wants small businesses to thrive, but his frequent Mar-a-Lago visits have flight schools and other companies at a nearby airport in a financial nosedive.
The Secret Service closed Lantana Airport on Friday for the third straight weekend because of the presidents return to his Palm Beach resort, meaning its maintenance companies, a banner-flying business and another two dozen businesses are also shuttered, costing them thousands of dollars at the years busiest time. The banner-flying company says it has lost more than $40,000 in contracts already.
The airport, which handles only small, propeller-driven planes and helicopters, is about 6 miles southwest of Mar-a-Lago, well within the 10-mile circle around the resort thats closed to most private planes when hes in town. Trump flies into Palm Beach International Airport, which is 2.5 miles from Mar-a-Lago, and remains opens as it handles commercial flights. Small private planes can also use that airport during presidential visits if they meet certain stringent conditions.
The Lantana owners are pushing compromises they say will ensure Trumps security while keeping their businesses open. They involve letting pilots fly in a closely monitored corridor headed away from the resort until they are outside a 10-mile ban around Mar-a-Lago and a 30-mile zone where flying lessons are restricted. Pilots, planes and cargo would undergo preflight screening by Transportation Security Administration agents.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/17/trump-small-airport-businesses/98071066/
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Russian oligarchs and they had permission to come o MakeaLego.