[JYO] Watch Leesburg's DENNIS BOYKIN in this WUSA Channel 9 video

Watch Leesburg's DENNIS  BOYKIN in this WUSA Channel 9 video
 
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Written by Doug Buchanan
9NEWS NOW
Created:9/7/2007 10:46:38  PM
Last Updated:9/10/2007  12:43:07 PM


   LEESBURG, Va. (WUSA) -- Up until late last  week, the air restrictions 
were up, above and around Reagan National, BWI  Thurgood Marshall, and Dulles 
Airports. 

Now only Reagan National  remains. A 30 nautical mile radius still remains 
minus an exception for many  grateful pilots at Leesburg Executive Airport.

Like at least a half dozen  small airports on the outskirts of Washington, 
the Leesburg Executive Airport  has been hit hard financially by the strict 
no-fly laws which were implemented  after 9-11.

Students and teachers at the once popular and money making  AV-ED Flight 
School at the airport just off of the Greenway in Loudoun County  have 
struggled 
just to make ends meet with an invisible odd shaped airspace that  was 
difficult navigate.

Now, only a 30 mile radius around Washington  remains, just barely including 
Leesburg, where a special exception was made for  pilots who take off and land 
in what is now known as the Leesburg Maneuvering  Area.

The lifted air restrictions are expected to keep pursuing fighter  jets on 
the ground and off the tails of arrant pilots of small privately owned  planes. 

FAA officials believe before the changes were made last week,  one out of 
three pilots who violated air space were caught unintentionally  heading into 
areas that posed little or no threat to the homeland.

The  breaks for local pilots still do not apply to small airports that are 
located  further within the 30 mile radius around Washington. That means 
officials with  airports in College Park and Gaithersburg are still holding out 
hope 
that  invisible circle above Washington will soon shrink in half one day  soon.





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