How many of you "leisure" flyers check for TFRs before you depart? The reason I am asking is I was enforcing a TFR for a wildfire last week and I had too many incursions to count. We actually had to shut down air operations until we could determine it was safe to proceed. PLEASE FOLKS, get a briefing and check for TFRs before you go cross country. And yes, this TFR had been in effect for many days prior. Just becasue there is no "visible" smoke, this does not mean the TFR is not there anymore. Believe me, we work hard to get the TFRs taken down when there is no need anymore.
The preflight briefing is a must. The information is too valuable not to have. We had a temporary FAA tower set up at an uncontrolled field to facilitate the heavy fire trafiic. Yet we still had a Piper Cub come rolling on in without contacting anybody and creating quite a stir with the 3 heavy air tankers in the pattern, who were talking to the tower.
Thanks for listening, rant over.
The preflight briefing is a must. The information is too valuable not to have. We had a temporary FAA tower set up at an uncontrolled field to facilitate the heavy fire trafiic. Yet we still had a Piper Cub come rolling on in without contacting anybody and creating quite a stir with the 3 heavy air tankers in the pattern, who were talking to the tower.
Thanks for listening, rant over.
