The following was sent to the Docket, my state rep (Judy Biggert) and
both senators from IL (Durbin and Obama) and AOPA.
RE: Comments concerning Docket No.
FAA-2004-17005
Date: 11 October 2005
I am a 2000 hour Commercial MEL Instrument
pilot operating out of KARR, an airport just outside the KORD (Chicago O’Hare)
Class B ring at about 29 NM and just inside the 30 NM transponder veil. I currently own one airplane that I use
for personal flight to the far corners of the continental US, flying about 120
hours per year. A 175 KIAS cruise
speed gets me to those corners rather quickly.
However, one place I can’t easily go to is
inside the DC ADIZ without installing temporary 12” registration numbers on my
small aircraft (currently affixed 3” numbers – See FAR 45.29(h)). This is a useless restriction, as is the
ADIZ in general. So much for GA
getting close enough to even carry a visitor to our nation’s capitol.
Similarly, abusive TFRs have also negatively
impacted VFR flight. Here, in the
Chicago area,
the lateral extent of the NFL game
TFR (Soldier Field) eliminates a common west to east VFR corridor under the ORD
Class B along the Eisenhower Expressway.
There aren’t enough controllers to handle VFR traffic (and many times IFR
traffic) thru the Class B or MDW Class C.
I am opposed to extending or making
permanent the ADIZ in the Washington, DC
area. Even though I am not based in
that region, I can imagine how severely it must limit simple operations in and
around the ADIZ. I came to this
conclusion by considering what a similar 30 NM ADIZ around O’Hare (KORD) would
mean to this area.
Inside such an ORD ADIZ: Besides Midway (KMDW), Waukegan (KUGN),
Palwaukee (KPWK), DuPage (KDPA) and Aurora (KARR), all reliever airports, would
be severely affected and the economic impact would be even worse. Lewis University (KLOT), specializing in
aviation education and training that would be diminished. Naper Aero and Brookeridge, both airpark
communities would be devalued.
Joliet (KJOT), Lansing (KIGQ) and Gary, IN
(KGYY) would have traffic patterns and approaches negatively affected by their
closeness to such an ADIZ (less than 1 mile). Of course, there are many more airports
that would also feel the ADIZ hammer.
An ADIZ has not and will not accomplish
its’ stated purpose. It will affect
General Aviation (GA) and safety by overloading controllers, reducing flights to
retain pilot currency, providing a barrier to avoiding bad weather and other
economic detriments too numerous to list.
GA is just another element of intermodal transportation – it should not
be singled out for undue and baseless restrictions.
Scott Krueger
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