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This just in from EAA:
Enhanced Class B Eliminated; FAA
Issues New Series of NOTAMs
Updated 12/19/02 4:55 pm - Enhanced Class
B airspace was eliminated on Wednesday,
December 19, by a series of new NOTAMs
issued by the FAA. In addition, the FAA
reduced TFR locations surrounding New York
City, Washington, D.C. and Boston, opening up
several GA and reliever airports that had
been
closed to operations for 100 days following
the
terrorist attacks of September 11.
"In the aftermath of September 11, this is
continued good news as we proceed on the
road back to full strength," said EAA
President
Tom Poberezny. "Our compliments to everyone
who has worked to produce this result. I am
especially proud of our EAA staff members who
did their part in helping restore our flight
privileges in this unprecedented series of
events."
Today's actions by the FAA are a direct
result of
recommendations that FAA developed and
forwarded to the DOT on November 12, and
subsequently to the Office of Homeland
Security for final coordination and approval.
The newly issued NOTAMs authorize blimp,
news and traffic reporting, sight-seeing
tours,
and banner towing operations to resume in the
three areas. (We highly encourage EAA
members to check NOTAMs continuously over
the next several days as we expect them to be
modified.)
In Washington, the 18-nautical mile TFR was
replaced by a 15 statute mile special
security
area (per FAR 99.7). It is centered on the
Washington Monument and extends from the
surface up to but not including FL180. The
NOTAM also provided a special 1 nm radius
cutout for Freeway Airport, Mitchellville,
Maryland, which allows operations to resume
there for the first time since the attacks.
Four
airports remain "trapped" in the new
Washington D.C., TFR, including Bower (PVT);
Potomac Airfield (VKX); Washington
Executive/Hyde Field (W32); and College Park
Airfield (CGS).
In New York, the TFR was reduced to a 2-mile
radius from the disaster/hazard area at
ground
zero, and extends from the surface to 8,000
feet AGL. All airports in the New York area
that
had been closed are now open for operations.
In Boston, the TFR was reduced to 3 miles
from
the point 4 nm on the 317 degree radial of
the
Boston VOR/DME and extends from the surface
to 3,000 feet AGL. All the airports in the
Boston
area that had been closed are now open, with
the exception of the Boston Logan unless
authorized by ATC.
The FAA has stressed to pilots that the
NOTAMs issued regarding such sensitive areas
as nuclear power plants and open air
assemblies are still in effect. More details
on
these breaking developments are sure to come.
Please note that these NOTAM restrictions
apply across the entire United States and not
just to the now-eliminated enhanced Class B
areas.
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