7 Special Use Airspace.avi

now John is going to cover the many different ins and outs a special use airspace let's talk about special use airspace and special use airspace is airspace with some limitation your ability to fly in that area generally due to some activity that just might be hazardous to your health something like this where dangerous activities are taking place or sometimes special use airspace is established because of protecting the national security of the national welfare for instance one type of special use airspace is a prohibited area they have a prohibited area over the White House in Washington DC they have a prohibited area over the Capitol building in the mall and a prohibited area is shown with these lines with hash marks and P in a number and this is an example of a prohibited area you are flat-out prohibited from flying in a prohibited area but normally special use airspace is established for reasons of your own health for instance in restricted areas they do things that might be hazardous to your health like space shuttle shots things like that and around these things because it's very hard for a Cessna 150 to keep up with a space shuttle since that is the case they establish a restricted area around these kinds of activities and you can find a restricted area it's not wholly prohibited for you to find a restricted area but they post the times a dangerous activity takes place and you can fly through there anytime other than the times posted or by getting permission from the appropriate authority now you can see where there's a restricted area because you'll see are in a number and you'll see these lines with the hash marks and that tells you there's a restricted area and it denotes the existence of some unusual sometimes invisible hazards such as artillery fire aerial gunnery guided missiles and so on things like that can ruin your whole dog gun day so you'd like to know when this is happening so what you can do is go to the legend on the chart so let's take a look at the legend on a chart and you'll see on the legend on a chart they'll give you the name or number of the restricted area they'll give you the geographic location of the restricted area the altitudes it goes to and when the restricted errors activity the activity the clauses the restricted area might be happening and they'll tell you by note am here continuous here by note am here and you can fly through here other than the times the dangerous activity is taking place or you can fly through here by permission from the controlling Authority and that is a restricted area and they are established for reasons of your own health another kind of special use airspace is warning areas non warning areas they do things like this they fire heat-seeking missiles they do machine gunning bombing strafing you might say wait a minute aren't those the same kind of activities that take place in a restricted area and the answer is yes they're exactly the same the only difference is a warning areas out to sea in international territory beyond the 12-mile limit and they cannot keep you from flying in international territory so you can fly in a warning area any old time you want to probably only once warning areas are shown on the chart just like restricted areas with blue lines with hash marks except when it's a warning area it says W and a number instead of R in a number now it used to be that international airspace started three miles out instead of 12 miles out so in between 3 and 12 miles they still have warning areas but they're established by a special Federal Aviation regulation so it's a warning area all the same and you can fly in at any time you want to just like any other warning area probably once another kind of special use airspace is a military operations area for short these are called amylase and these mo A's are established to keep IFR planes separated from military training activities that might include acrobatic or abrupt flight maneuvers and so they are shown on the charts so that you will know they are there they're shown with these magenta lines with the hash marks they are also labeled for instance this is the Pecos West high MOA now these are designed to keep IFR airplanes separated from this activity that the military is doing it might be hazardous however IFR traffic may actually be cleared through an MOA if IFR separation can be provided by air traffic control if on the other hand IFR separation cannot be provided by ATC they will route the IFR airplane around the MOA now a VFR airplane can fly through an MOA anytime they want to but according to the FAA a VFR pilot should exercise extreme caution while flying through an MOA during the times the military activity is taking place and I think that is a wonderful idea it's always a good idea to exercise extreme caution now if you want to obtain real-time information concerning the hours of operation on an MOA you can contact any flight service station within 100 miles of the area and the FAA says before you enter an active MOA it's a good idea to contact the controlling agency and get traffic advisories while you're flying in there another kind of area we want to talk about is an alert area now alert areas contain a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aerial activity including high performance climbs and descents and they post these alert areas on the chart because they thought you would want to know now you as a pilot can fly through an alert area any time you want to but the FAA says you should be especially alert when you fly through alert areas that's why they call them alert areas now let's assume that there's a military airplane in here and you are flying in here who is responsible for avoiding a collision and the answer is all pilots including the participating pilots also including the non participating pilots all pilots are equally responsible for collision avoidance so the message in alert area is look outside that window now another kind of airspace is a controlled firing area let's take a look at the kind of activity that takes place in a controlled firing area this is the kind of activity that takes place the controlled firing area we're talking about a small scale war here folks now the interesting thing about a controlled firing area is they do not show these areas on aeronautical charts anywhere you can't find them why wouldn't they show something like this on an aeronautical chart well the reason is they have spotter aircraft radar ground lookout positions and what they do is watch for aircraft that might be coming and when they spot some aircraft they suspend the activity this is wonderful this is the only area we've talked about that does not require non participating aircraft to change their flight plans you just keep on coming and they quit their activity and it works fantastic unless you happen to be flying a stealth today then it doesn't work so well let's take a look at military training routes now military training routes are established to conduct for the military low altitude high speed training by low altitude we're talking about two to three hundred feet AGL and by high speed we're talking about speeds in excess of 250 knots indicated air speed we're talking about high speed low altitude bomber runs folks so if you're in a Cessna 150 flying along and you see an airplane fly underneath you at these kinds of speeds it scares the daylights out of you now non-participating aircraft are not prohibited from flying in these military training routes you can fly through here anytime you want to however the FA thinks extreme vigilance should be exercised when you're conducting flight through these areas or near these areas so how do you find out what's going on and when these activities are taking place on these military training routes you contact a flight service station within 100 nautical miles of a particular military training route to obtain current information the kind of information you can get is at times the activities taking place the altitudes that are in use and the actual width of these routes the whit's very now when you call the flight server station you should give the specialist your route of flight your position now and your destination and you do all this at one time and the whole idea is a reduced frequency congestion and this lets the specialist give you the answer Meishan you need about the particular routes that will affect you now there is a numbering system on these military training routes and that numbering system can be very helpful to you as a pilot first of all you can see letters V R and if you see the letters V R that means the flight is limited to visual conditions if instead you see the letter IR like you have up here the IR means the flight can be conducted either in visual or even instrument conditions and notice sometimes you see three-digit numbers and sometimes you see four-digit numbers that also tells you very helpful information because if you see a four digit number that means the flight must be conducted at or below 1500 feet AGL if on the other hand you see a three digit number that means the flight cadby could be at any altitude it could be above or below 1500 feet AGL what is an easy way to remember this I'll tell you an easy way to remember this think of this as a pyramid the lower altitudes are the four-digit numbers so it rests on the four-digit numbers the higher altitudes the ones that have the capability of being higher altitudes are three-digit numbers so build yourself a pyramid and you'll remember that the lower altitude flights have four-digit numbers now let's take a look at another unusual piece of aerospace and this is on approach to US Marine Corps El Toro and there are climb and descent corridors because there's a lot of activity taking place in here they want you to communicate with them so they have made this Class D airspace Class D as you remember stands for dialog meaning that communications is required so here's an example of Class D airspace that has an unusual shape it's a climber descent corridor so look out for unusual shaped airspace into and out of some very busy military airports in this case that's Class D and dialog is required now another thing we need to talk about is the air defense identification zone for short that's called the ADIZ now the ADIZ surrounds the entire United States and it's there to provide defense of the United States and aircraft entering the ADIZ must follow certain rulz we're going to talk about some of these rules we're not going to talk about all of them so if you actually think you may be flying an ADIZ you need to look up the rules in the Airman's information manual the general rule is that this applies to everybody except aircraft going for around Alaska and Hawaii that fly less than 180 knots are exempt from it and what you need to do if you're going to enter an ADIZ is you must file an IFR or what is known as a defense VFR flight plan for all operations that enter the ADIZ and of course two-way radio is required for most ADIZ operations and a transponder with altitude reporting is required unless you're operating in Alaska and Hawaii so you have to do first of all if you're IFR normal IFR position reporting but if you're flying on a defense VFR flight plan you must do special position reporting and you must report when you're going to enter the ADIZ at least 15 minutes before you do enter the ADIZ and they take these reports pretty seriously first of all your position must be within if you're over land plus or minus 5 minutes and 10 nautical miles and if you're over water plus plus or minus 5 minutes in 29 achill miles so the ADIZ is something you should get very familiar with if you think you may be flying around the borders of the United States or crossing into the ADIZ now another thing you need to know about is what is known as temporary flight restrictions once again these won't show up on any aeronautical chart these are issued by notice to Airmen and it's when something that is dangerous dangerous is going on such as a forest fire or some activity that might create a lot of public interest like the America's Cup they will issue a temporary flight restriction and that is another good reason you should always get a weather briefing before flying because you need to know about these temporary flight restrictions now another kind of area we need to talk about is a special conservation area now these areas include wildlife refuges primitive and wilderness areas national parks and they're shown on the chart with a blue line with dots inside for instance here's the grassy knob wilderness area on some islands for instance they have wildlife refuges in this particular case you the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and the Seas islands they have the blue lines with the dots inside or national parks might be shown this way for instance in California might find the Lassen Volcanic National Park and it has a line with the dots inside of it and those are special conservation areas now one of the things you need to know about these areas is that the landing of aircraft is prohibited in these areas unless you have prior authorization now the areas we're talking about is lands or waters administered by the National Park Service the u.s. Forest Service the Wildlife Service you cannot land there unless you have prior authorization of course you could land there if you had an emergency so you can make emergency landings or you can land at an approved site or if you happen to be on official business of the US government you could land there but otherwise the thing you need to know is that in these areas landings are prohibited another thing you need to know is that all aircraft are requested to maintain a minimum of 2,000 feet above ground level above the surface of wildlife areas now sometimes they'll make the request for another altitude and by the way this is a request it's not law however it's a very serious request and if you fail to maintain that altitude when you land very often you will be visited by a park ranger that's what they tell me I wouldn't know that personally now sometimes the request is for some altitude other than 2,000 feet for instance if you look in Southern California at the Condor nesting areas and if you look at this fine print very very closely you find the request is for 3,000 feet in that area sometimes the request says fly a certain distance away for instance around Palomar Observatory on Palomar Mountain in Southern California they request that you avoid the area by at least 5 miles so there are all different kinds of requests in a request that they do take seriously

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Length: 15min 9sec (909 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 09 2011