most of eastern Massachussetts airspace closed in July

I assumed they meant that they expect a lot delegates to be
arriving/departing on GA flights.

"Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:04:45 +0000 (UTC), Jack Cunniff ("Jack")
writes:
Jack Logan will be closed to all but commercial traffic, yes. No GA

I am specifically concerned with the traffic/news helicopter service.

(I'm concerned about the larger issues, but am trying to draw
a boundary around one specific aspect of the restriction that
seems blatantly obviously detrimental to the public interest,
regardless of national security or airman politics or anything.)

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:22:12 -0400, Jeremy Lew ("Jeremy") writes:
Jeremy That FAA link specifically says that the special IFR arrival
Jeremy procedures are due to the higher than normal anticipated
Jeremy volume of flights, it has nothing to do with security.

I think that's almost certainly bull****. I mean, is is that there
are going to be so many more scheduled airliners coming in all week
that they're going to be unable to avoid a couple of helicopters?
Or is it the onrush of zillions of GA planes coming to fly over the
city in order to view... nothing that's outside? And bear in mind
that in order to begin to create the hypothetical problematic situation,
all these mysterious random aircraft inundating the area from parts
unknown would have to be ignoring the permanent class B Boston airspace.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:11:24 -0400, Jeremy Lew ("Jeremy") writes:
Jeremy I assumed they meant that they expect a lot delegates to be
Jeremy arriving/departing on GA flights.

So many that ATC and all the areas airports can't seperate them
from exactly four helicopter aircraft within 30 nm of Boston?
Besides, it seems more likely that most conventioneers will be
arriving on scheduled airliners. (If they were going to use GA
flights, they won't be able to do that now under the proposed TFR,
so that makes no sense in addressing the motivation.)

It's bull****, I tell you.