On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:55:34 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld ("Ron") writes:

Ron On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:46:18 GMT, (Christopher C.
Ron Stacy) wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:02:14 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld ("Ron") writes:

Ron On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:25:42 -0400, Peter R.
Ron wrote:

This will shut down all Angel Flights into and out of Boston's Logan
Airport, a very common destination for children with severe burns, cancer
survivors, and organ transplant recipients.

Ron How do you know that?

Because those are GA flights,

Ron 1. Emergency medical flights are not included in the restriction.
Ron 2. Angel Flight is presently negotiating with Homeland Security.

Ron So while what you post "may" come to pass,
Ron I don't see it as necessarily set in stone as yet.

By the way, where are you getting your inside information about the
negotiations for the Angel Flights from? The other person who wrote
about it is one of their active pilots, and he wasn't aware.

Nobody raised the issue of "emergency medical flights" until you did
just now. Does it say that in the TFR? Last I heard on the day I
posted, the FAA was still writing the TFR and it had not been published.
Angel Flights are not usually emergency "Lifeguard" flights are they?
If you mean to suggest that since emergency medical flights will be
allowed, perhaps Angel Flight (hospital transport charity services)
will be able to negotiate an exception also, that certainly does
sound reasonable to me.

But the whole point here is that the government doesn't seem to be
behaving in a generallg reasonable manner in this situation, so far.
I have to wonder why they would allow those Angel Flights, and yet not
allow the three news/traffic helicopter flights, which also seem quite
reasonable. The helicopter flights represent a much more secure situation
than the Angel Flights: the pilots and aircraft are more well known, the
traffic flight schedules are known in advance, and the aircraft can be
secured and inspected more easily. According to the news reports,
these news/traffic guys have also been negotiating for permission to fly,
but they didn't think there was any chance of them winning.
And since it is clearly in the public interest for them to fly,
that's specifically what I was writing about.