Flight Restrictions, Dallas TX. (GW Bush residence?)

[GAHorn]

FDC 9/2934 ZFW TX.. FLIGHT RESTRICTION. DALLAS, TEXAS.
PURSUANT TO 49 USC 40103(B), THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
(FAA) CLASSIFIES THE AIRSPACE DEFINED IN THIS NOTAM AS 'NATIONAL
DEFENSE AIRSPACE'. ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY OR WILLFULLY VIOLATES
THE RULES CONCERNING OPERATIONS IN THIS AIRSPACE MAY BE SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN CRIMINAL PENALTIES UNDER 49 USC 46307. PILOTS WHO DO NOT
ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES MAY BE INTERCEPTED, DETAINED
AND INTERVIEWED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT/SECURITY PERSONNEL. PURSUANT
TO TITLE 14, SECTION 91.141 OF THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS,
AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING
AREA(S) UNLESS OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY ATC

WITHIN A 1 NMR OF 325321N/0964835W OR THE CVE085004.8 UP TO AND
INCLUDING 1500 FT AGL EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

[SteveF]

Sure sounds like the one in Maine for his father's summer house. One nautical mile and up to 1000 feet - he is at sea level on the coast just south of Portland. I am betting that Dallas is about 500 ft ASL therefore the 1500 ft restriction.
Maine's is a prohibited area, P67, but I have not heard of it causing many problems though it is there all the time - not seasonal as you might expect.

Should I stir the pot and say up here we prefer the father to the son anyway?

[GAHorn]

I prefer him "up there" too.

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[Luvjet]

That is W's house. The good part is that it's inside the class B anyway.

[PilotMikeTX]

What's missing from the text above is the part that says "Without ATC permission". Not that you aren't always at 3000 feet on downwind at DAL anyway, but hypothetically, if one happened to have a controller friend and access to a Lear 25...

[GAHorn]

What's missing from the text above is the part that says "Without ATC permission". Not that you aren't always at 3000 feet on downwind at DAL anyway, but hypothetically, if one happened to have a controller friend and access to a Lear 25...

Hey, Mike! (This is all tongue-in-cheek).... What part of the following portions of the "above text" did you miss?

.. ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY OR WILLFULLY VIOLATES
THE RULES ...

And also:

.. UNLESS OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY ATC....

So, FIRST... You'd have to KNOW about the rule... THEN you'd have to WILLINGLY (deliberately) violate that rule.... without ATC authorization.

[PilotMikeTX]

What I meant was, you get ATC to vector you out there on a wide downwind for 13L. Maybe they need to check their low altitude alert system or something...heck, even at 1100 feet, a straight pipe Lear will rattle your windows.

A friend of mine was telling me about a little sleepy private strip East of Dallas that ended up with a nasty neighbor who erected a big billboard on his property right off the end of the runway with some anti-airport language on it. Said friend was flying for a charter outfit in Longview that operated among other things, Falcon 10s and some helicopters. They had a lot of late night and early morning repositioning flights to Dallas. Those flights were often conducted VFR. For some reason that guy took that billboard down. I guess having the occassional Cessna fly over on Saturday afternoon is better than having a Falcon 10 fly over at midnight 3 nights a week or having a Jet Ranger fly over and shine the spotlight in your bedroom window.

[GAHorn]

I'm not sure that this medium is making all the "inflections" of voice necessary to accomplish the intended communication. ... so bear with me on this...no intent of offense exists...

But if a "friend" in a Falcon 10 or Lear 20-series decided to "demonstrate" to an airport-unfriendly person that noise can be used as a weapon and that by drawing attention to himself by raising a billboard-of-protest was not in the property-owner's best interests.... and if that "friend" deliberately buzzed that property in that demonstration.... as a fellow pilot I'd be PZZZZZ'df OFF!

A few years ago, while departing KBMQ (Burnet Kate Craddock bluEldr) I made a high-performance short-field demonstration and turned left very shortly after lift-off... which placed me directly over an adjoining property-owners home alongside the airport boundary. About 30 mins later I received a phone call from the new FBO owner's wife who lightly scolded me and asked me to ....in the future... continue my climbouts straight ahead until passing the departure end of the runway at the maximum height "appropriate for the aircraft's regular performance."

I thought to myself: "Who the H---- does she think she is, telling me how to operate my own airplane? She oughta' be happy I even went there!" (The only reason I was there was to purchase fuel, which I could just as conveniently done elsewhere.)

15 years later I feel different. I value having that airport there, and I'm glad so few complaints by the next-door airport neighbors occur. There's no reason to deliberately antigonize airport neighbors.

Now... getting a closer look at a nowhere-near-an-airport ex-politician's abode might be different....

[blueldr]

I almost wish I lived inTexas just so I could make a concertated effort to aggravate "W". I'd be delighted to be able to make his retirement as uncomfortable as possible.

[flyguy]

We have a resident at our strip with a Bonanza that is very LOUD on takeoff (Unmuffled ?). I wonder sometime if he knows just how loud it is. Taking off to the south, his flight path is directly over our house and the sound is so loud that our mutt, Bandit*, lifts her nose to the air and lets out those ancient "wolf" howls. (* Her Bossyness Pic) It does not bother us for we are airplane people but I often wonder what the neighbors think when he departs to the north, directly over a fairly heavily populated area. Should someone tell him? It won't change the characteristics of the bird but might help him choose taking of to the south most of the time.

[GAHorn]

The stock Bonanza is "muffled" but Bob's 3-blade prop is what is making all that ear-splitting noise, I believe Gar'. My 206 with a 2-blade McCauley and Leon's (my old neighbor) 210 had the exact same engine on their similar airframes, but he had a 3-blade prop. The difference was remarkable as for take-off noise.

[Joe Moilanen]

Damn mutts anyway.

Joe

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[GAHorn]

Joe, ... THAT dog needs a KISS! (Come on... you can admit it. You occasionally kiss that muzzle, ....don't you?)

[Joe Moilanen]

Yes, I must confess, he gets his fair share