Mack's
Hangar
By Bob Mack
TFR over Oshkosh
AirVenture
August 30 - A large gathering of people will draw a TFR
(Temporary Flight Restriction). The Democratic & Republican
Conventions, the Super Bowl, and even air shows will have a TFR. Now,
what scares me is that I just returned from AirVenture at Oshkosh. I
was there with hundreds of thousands of people in one small location.
There were 20,000 planes flying overhead and / or landing.
I just realized today, almost a month after
the event, that I was not protected by a TFR. I don’t understand how
the EAA could have an event that 700,000 people could attend in one week
and not ask the FAA for the protection of that wonderful TFR. That
means for one week all 700,000 of us put our lives at risk without the
protection of the FAA and United States Air Force.
 Is there no justice? Weeks after the event,
I shutter with fear of what might have happened to us at AirVenture
2004. Those of us who attended the event must have been blessed with
that aviation spiritual God. The one that protects us from the
terrorists. For whatever reason, the terrorists didn’t strike at the
heart of aviation, EAA’s AirVenture 2004. There were dangerous
airplanes all over the sky during the event. The week went as planned
without one of the Nation’s more useful protective tools… the inventible
TFR.
This month Aero-News Network reported this
story on another event in Wisconsin:
In The Interest Of National Security...
Not
only will a lot of flying golf nuts have to endure airport crowds and
special procedures to get to the PGA Championships in Sheboygan (WI),
but now they have to contend with a small matter of national security.
Yup. The Whistling Straights
Golf Course is under a TFR.
The TFR is effective one hour
before tee-time until one hour after the last golfer leaves for the
clubhouse, all week long. The US Department of Transportation said the
TSA enacted the TFR "as a general precaution, and not because of any
known specific threats." The affected area includes the golf course and
everything within three miles.
Here we have two events in
Wisconsin the same month. One event deals with aviation and invites
planes to come in, un-searched. The other one, a golf tournament that,
wanted to own the air over them. Yep, own the air!!! That is what it
is all about. Disney Corp, Golfers, NFL, AFL, and others want to own
the air above them. The reason, might be to keep advertising banners
from being flown over the event.
It is all about money, not
terrorist threats. But rather corporate threats… Is it fair… No!!!
But as long as we remain silent, it will happen… over and over…
Let’s not lay down and roll over…
let’s stand up and be counted..
And so it goes….
Golf story source:
www.aero-news.net
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