It was unfortunate since we've had a good discussion going on between
ASA and Luke AFB for three months and the persons complaining didn't
bother to check with their own liaison personnel or us before firing
complaints off in every direction - to the FAA, local city managers and
the press.

For Region 9, we'd agreed to avoid tasking completely in one MOA and to
avoid one sector of another one and requested in return they keep
military aircraft above glider operating altitudes for the three hours
or so on the four days we'll be in potential conflict in the two
remaining segments. (For the last couple of days, top of the boundary
layer has been below the MOA floor of 7,000 feet) We'd also agreed to
use steering turns to move gliders further away from training and
approach areas.

Rewards for this cooperation are threats to close down our glider field
permanently and requests to the FAA to ban gliders from MOAs
completely.

No good deed goes unpunished!

Mike