".Blueskies." wrote in message
et...
The NPRM for permanently making this airspace restricted is the FAAs way
to calling the TSA or Homeland Security to the table; when this airspace
was defined, the TSA (or Homeland Security, or SS) was supposed to justify
it every 60 days or so which has never been done. This NPRM requires
public hearings so they will have to try and justify it which should prove
to be interesting....

You are quite the optimist.

The NPRM doesn't force anyone to justify anything. It's not the FAA's "way
to calling the TSA or DHS to the table". It's their way of following the
legally required steps to implement their new rules.

If the NPRM were anything other than bureaucratic procedure, then all the
previous NPRMs for bad ideas would have resulted in those bad ideas not
being implemented. But it's not, and they didn't. Anyone who thinks that
comments to a NPRM will have any real effect on the outcome just hasn't been
paying attention to the way the FAA has handled them.

Pete