Yes, I read your words and my opinion is that your FSDO is
insane.

If some FAA inspector told me what you are saying, I would
be in contact with my Congressman and FAA HQ.

The FAA publications teach missed approaches, low approaches
and all manner of low flight. If you are OVER a town, it
can be identified and a pilot knows what altitude he is
expect to fly. When over open range, trees, water or an
area with no concentration of houses or buildings, that
constitutes "sparsely" by common definition. Laws in order
to be enforced must be written so a common person can abide
by the words written in that law.

The FAA interpretation you say the FAA enforces in your
region is nonsense and since they have brought cases, it is
open to challenge, Congressional over-sight, and public
demonstration.

The FAA does issue waiver to these rules for airshows, some
times it is a blanket for the airport/event [Oshkosh] and
sometimes it is for the pilot and the airspace. But any
pilot expects to be able to fly a low approach and do a
go-around. Many CFIs have their students fly along and just
a few feet above the runway, planning not to land, even
though the speed is right ay 1.3 Vso. Some times we do have
tire contact, but it wasn't planned.

If an agent of the Administrator asks you to do something or
clears you to do some something, that is approval by the
Administrator.

The FAA has many agents, some like airplanes and some still
think they are a Col. in the USAF. If you take a NASA night
photo of the area and it is dark, it is sparsely populated.
If you are a mile away from a densely populated area and any
area of buildings, vehicles [that includes tractor and
trucks] structures [that includes tower and oil rigs] people
and that includes Mexicans walking over the border, stay 500
foot radius away.

But just because you say it, I say it, the FAA says it or
even an NTSB law judge says it, it may not be correct.
Congress and the US Supreme Court are the final say.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties.


"Peter Duniho" wrote in
message ...
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:rc9yg.84362$ZW3.50803@dukeread04...
| [...]
| Important words above... OVER Every place that isn't
OVER a
| town, city, settlement or crowd is by the above list
| SPARSELY and I'm pretty sure Puget Sound has lots of
water.
|
| Do you even bother to read the posts to which you reply?
Or are you saying
| that you don't believe what I wrote?
|
| I specifically wrote exactly the interpretation that the
FAA is using here,
| and it isn't anywhere *close* to the interpretation you'd
like it to be. In
| particular, the person who was cited by the FAA for
violation of 91.119 was
| NOT over "a town, city, settlement, or crowd" and yet was
found to NOT be
| flying over a "sparsely populated area".
|
| As far as "I'm pretty sure Puget Sound has lots of water"
goes, that's fine,
| but nothing that I wrote pertained to flight over water.
The question is
| what constitutes a "sparsely populated area", and in the
Puget Sound region,
| there is NO place that meets that description, according
to our local FSDO.
|
| Pete
|
|