Jack wrote:
Is this something like flying R/C above 400' within 4 miles of the
airport? The rules say the airport manager has to be NOTIFIED. It does
NOT say that he has to grant permission. We got into that once flying
R/C Sailplanes when the local airport manager came ranting that even
though we had posted on his bulliten board and sent him a registered
letter, that he had not APPROVED it. We showed him the ruile and asked
him to show us where it said he had to. We never heard from him again,
and flew there for years after the airport had been made into a housing
addition. MOA airspace belongs to the public, not the government.
There's way too much of it to lose. I, too, hope the SSA and AOPA step
in on this one.

We should be careful not to lump the FAA into the same "government" as
the military on this one. Our experience in Washington State (and I
think elsewhere) is that the FAA is not keen to have public airspace
transformed into military airspace. It doesn't make their job any easier.

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