"nooneimportant" wrote in message
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"Flyingmonk" wrote in message
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I say why not tethered balloons or blimps with same equipment on board
at intervals and dorder patrols with choppers to have closer looksy
when conditions warrant? Too cost effective to work? Not enough
lobbyist to make money off of this idea?

The cable would require a TFR that would run from the surface, all the
way up to the balloon. Hard to see a cable at night.
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Jim in NC

The teathered baloons ARE on the border, know of one near big bend area in
TX, and another near Silver City, MN. They don't have TFR's... they have
airspace slightly more restrictive then a TFR... They have plain ole
Restricted Airspace from surface up to fifteen thousand i belive...

I honestly don't see the UAV's doing all that much to help stop
immigration, still gonna take ground troops to intercept the illegals and
shipemback. That said I don't really have a big prob with this particular
TFR, the base is above what most GA traffic will be operating at. It
shares a common border with the ADIZ which involves ATC contact ANYWAY to
transit, and with ATC communicaiton there is the possibility that you can
STILL enter and transit the UAV TFR's. There are very few airports that
will be "Under" the TFR, and even then do you really expect to be reaching
12k feet in 7 miles?

Gotta love transposition errosr. make that Silver City, NM, not MN.....