Daley Does it Again

[sky37d]

Just got the NOTAM prohibiting VFR flights over Chicago. Guess HIZONNER doesn't want to be bothered by planes looking for Meigs. What a d1ck.

FAA ESTABLISHS TFR OVER DOWNTOWN CHICAGO
AOPA is sending this message to advise you that the Department of Homeland
Security has instructed the FAA to issue a notam establishing a temporary
flight restriction (TFR) over downtown Chicago.

The restriction is effective immediately. VFR flight is prohibited below
3,000 feet agl in the area bordered by the ORD VOR/DME 115.4-degree radial
at 14.6 DME (on the Lake Michigan shoreline), west along the Eisenhower
Expressway to its intersection with the Dan Ryan Expressway (ORD 118- degree radial at 13.4 DME), then north along the Dan Ryan/Kennedy to the
intersection with Ashland Avenue (ORD 110.2-degree radial at 11.5 DME),
then north along Ashland to the intersection with Irving Park Road (ORD
98.6-degree radial at 10.7 DME) then east along Irving Park to the Lake
Michigan shoreline (ORD 97.4-degree radial at 12 DME), then south via the
shoreline--excluding Olive Park and the Navy Pier--to the beginning point.

The full text of the notam and a graphic are available on AOPA Online
( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/notams.html#3/2133 ).

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Guess pay back time for all those pestering bugsmashers and AOPA members who dared to question his closing of Meigs. It helps take the sting out of it if you remeber we are servants of the government and not the other way around.

 

[flyn96]

Correct me if I'm wrong but TFRs do not apply to aircarrier operations. Cause I've flown over many Big Ten football games and Nascar races this past fall as well as nuclear power stations at low altitude. Haven't heard from anyone yet.

 

[Flying Illini]

Define "aircarrier operations."

 

[dispatchguy]

Air carrier operations are those operations operated under the TSA's rules, and the TSAs standard security plan.

Plus, reading the text of the TFR, it only prohibits VFR ops anyway, and makes no prohibition to IFR ops, even Part 91 general aviation IFR operations.