[JYO] Watch Leesburg's DENNIS BOYKIN in this WUSA Channel 9 video
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- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:31 EDT
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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