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![]() "Morgans" wrote in message news ![]() "Flyingmonk" wrote in message ups.com... I say why not tethered balloons or blimps with same equipment on board at intervals and dorder patrols with choppers to have closer looksy when conditions warrant? Too cost effective to work? Not enough lobbyist to make money off of this idea? The cable would require a TFR that would run from the surface, all the way up to the balloon. Hard to see a cable at night. -- Jim in NC The teathered baloons ARE on the border, know of one near big bend area in TX, and another near Silver City, MN. They don't have TFR's... they have airspace slightly more restrictive then a TFR... They have plain ole Restricted Airspace from surface up to fifteen thousand i belive... I honestly don't see the UAV's doing all that much to help stop immigration, still gonna take ground troops to intercept the illegals and shipemback. That said I don't really have a big prob with this particular TFR, the base is above what most GA traffic will be operating at. It shares a common border with the ADIZ which involves ATC contact ANYWAY to transit, and with ATC communicaiton there is the possibility that you can STILL enter and transit the UAV TFR's. There are very few airports that will be "Under" the TFR, and even then do you really expect to be reaching 12k feet in 7 miles? |
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