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Before a recent night flight from Hanscom Field (KBED) to Land of Gulfstreams (Teterboro, NJ; KTEB), I decided to call the official government-sponsored weather briefer at Leidos<\/a>. The KTEB folks were shutting down one runway and I wanted to make sure that I hadn’t missed anything else important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The briefer asked “You’re familiar with El Chapo’s TFR<\/em> in Brooklyn?” I hadn’t heard about it, but it seems that El Chapo is being protected by a temporary flight restriction centered on the courthouse, with a radius of 0.4 miles, and from the surface up to 1,500′. The user-friendly page<\/a> doesn’t mention El Chapo, but the XML text<\/a> does:<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Separately, let me say thanks to the good folks at Meridian TEB<\/a>. It is a bad day for any FBO when a piston-powered aircraft shows up and that’s especially true at Teterboro (do you want to sell 15 gallons of 100LL to Joe CFI in the flight school Cessna or 2000 gallons of jet fuel to Gulfstream Al (Gore) or the Clinton Foundation?). Meridian has always been friendly and helpful, even keeping midget chocks around for those of us who fly Cirrus<\/a> or similar. This was a business trip and my departure was set for Official Polar Vortex Panic Day. It was 3 degrees overnight on the ramp and warmed up only to about 12 by mid-day. Starting an aluminum aircraft engine after it has been cold-soaked does a lot of damage. Meridian kept the plane in their warm maintenance hangar overnight and until our 2 pm departure. It is ground-support folks like this that make personal aviation practical in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, now that the shutdown is over, our local government workers are working 24\/7. Email received today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please be advised that the Bedford Air Traffic Control tower will provide ATC services during the overnight hours 2300-0700, this Sunday night, after the Super Bowl.<\/p>
Additional Airport Operations staff will be on hand to support the increased aircraft arrivals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
(usually the tower is closed from 11 pm to 7 am)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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