Pray for the 15 year old boy knocking on THAT door !!

GameboyRMH wrote: The sailplane pilot was in the wrong there, he should have known that there's a no-fly zone around nuclear plants, but he decided to go for the sweet artificial thermals anyway. He was lucky he didn't get shot down. That's just one step below "land on Area 51's runway/buzz White House" on the aviation stupid-meter.

You mean the no fly zones that they don't put on the map because al-Quaida? Any enforcement authority doesn't have a leg to stand on on that one.

Still doesn't mean that some rent-a-cop or pissant sheriff won't try to shoot you down though.

In reply to GameboyRMH:

Why can't you land at Area 51? The gub-mint says it's "just" an airstrip.

Karacticus wrote: You mean the no fly zones that they don't put on the map because al-Quaida? Any enforcement authority doesn't have a leg to stand on on that one.

I like the one over DC that starts less than a mile from the end of Kentmoor's strip on Kent Island MD. It's called take off and bank to avoid being shot down

There's a big difference between the charted restricted and prohibited areas like DC and Area 51 (and a very large portion of New Mexico) and the uncharted power plant and industrial facilities that some bureaucrat thought would make himself look good if he made a "no-fly" rule for.

Even the temporary restrictions around large public events (college football stadiums on game day, NASCAR races, etc. are published with advance notice given, though they play funny timing games on the presidential ones-- I can recall asking if I'd be able to leave at a certain time and being told they couldn't give me that information in advance.

It's also kind of odd that Disney has had "temporary" flight restrictions in place over their properties since 2001. Suspect those have more to do with keeping banner tow operators out of their hair than any real security risk.

Trans_Maro wrote: In reply to GameboyRMH: Why can't you land at Area 51? The gub-mint says it's "just" an airstrip.

I remember watching a Discovery Channel thing back in 96 or 97 about Area 51. The host and a camera man got a Cessna and went and flew at 7-8,000 feet within 1/2 mile parallel to Area 51 airspace. The two F-15s that showed up shortly thereafter said they weren't allowed to do that anymore. And they made a point of banking to show them the full compliment of missiles they were carrying.

Duke wrote:

Lancer007 wrote: In reply to HappyAndy: I probably would wreck a glider trying to check out Zooey Dechanel

TV Tropes says that Zooey Deschanel is a "Manic Pixie Dreamgirl". Personally, I find her to be an "Annoying Self-absorbed Bitch".

Huh, I'm impressed you've met her and spent enough time with her to know her that well!

The father of the 15 YO girl will be really freaked out when he finds out that Keyhole satellites can already read the text on her iPhone. Maybe he has enough pull to get their orbits changed....

Hey if the NSA does the same things with satellite imagery that they do with Internet data...

or maybe...

dculberson wrote:

Duke wrote:

Lancer007 wrote: In reply to HappyAndy: I probably would wreck a glider trying to check out Zooey Dechanel

TV Tropes says that Zooey Deschanel is a "Manic Pixie Dreamgirl". Personally, I find her to be an "Annoying Self-absorbed Bitch".

Huh, I'm impressed you've met her and spent enough time with her to know her that well!

I know her precisely as well as anybody else in this thread does. I go by the persona I see her putting forth in her public face. If that's not what she's really like in her secret heart of hearts, she's welcome to change the way she presents herself to the world. Or not, as she sees fit.

This week in Unnecessary Censorship:

Duke wrote: I go by the bleep I see her putting in her bleep face.

Dude, she meets your criteria, she doesn't meet mine. In theory, she should seriously be able to paddle my watercraft, but in apparent reality, she just doesn't, based on her perceived personality.

I'm OK with having unpopular opinions.

Trans_Maro wrote: In reply to GameboyRMH: Why can't you land at Area 51? The gub-mint says it's "just" an airstrip.

I understand the whole place has been relocated to Dugway. I was supposed to go there once, last minute stuff; I found a pretty good reason to bow out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident

Dugway's another secret base, Area 51 is still being used for testing secret planes though. If they were going to relocate to Dugway, they'd need to build a super-long runway there for their hypersonic suborbital stuff.