Dallas wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:57:13 -0400, rnruss52 wrote:

Didn't they define an area of ocean off of the Hawaiian shore
(not over the beach), as a congested area sometime in the past year?

That's the exact article I was talking about. They suspended a Gulfstream
pilot for 150 days for making low passes while filming a production.

The first 2 passes were offshore along a beach. The FAA called the beach a
congested area because they considered it an "open air assembly of
persons". - I don't have a big problem with that as there were surfers
down below when he did it.

The second pass gives me some heartburn. The pilot made a gear down, flaps
down low pass over the runway (with permission of the airport manager) and
the FAA board implicitly held that the airfield was a congested area. -

If they call an airport a congested area then my definition of a congested
area is completely invalid.


And so is everyone else's. It just shows that the FAA will use this
particular reg as a gotcha. The plus side to this is that sooner or
later they might get a administrative judge that thinks them doing so is
the complete bull$h!t that it is an rule against them.