wrote:
Luke AFB decided this afternoon to suspend training in all MOAs
starting at 1300 hours next week. No doubt they're going to turn around
and use that as ammunition to lobby the FAA for reclassification of
those MOAs as restricted airspace.

I sure hope that SSA and the AOPA will be heavily involved in this
battle. I for one plan on making more than a little crunching sound
when that big foot starts to come down from on high!

~ted/2NO


Here is an opportunity to lay some positive groundwork no only for this
location, but for everyone in soaring.

Not being familiar with the site location details, but let's say that
you expect weather to keep cloudbase (and therefore gliders) below say
10k ft. (pick whatever altitude is realistic, yet conservative)

Call up the base commander, say "Hey, we heard you canceled all your
operations for next week. We're highly confident that we're not going
to exceed 10k ft (or whatever the number is). If you simply keep
everyone above 10k, we're going to be able to co-exist and you'll be
able to keep training on schedule."

The ride in a Duo is a great idea as well...

This is only a suggestion, but you see where it's headed - maybe there
are other ways to soften this impact on the folks at Luke and we all
benefit later..