FAA says Coachella to be a NO FLY ZONE - say bye bye to banners and the puff clouds..

[baily]

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2012...xt|Frontpage|p

dang

I get the no dropping papers or anything for that manner, but the puff cloud plane was awesome!

[PlayaDelWes]

FAA officials also will be on site to make sure pilots abide by the new regulations

Sounds like a boondoggle to me.

[captncrzy]

Already a thread for this
http://www.coachella.com/forum/showt...ghlight=desert

[TomAz]

The restrictions were announced Monday by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer

You would think she would have bigger fish to fry.

[tchuess]

The flight restrictions come four years after a plane carrying confetti-like leaflets supporting President Barack Obama's campaign missed the concert venue and instead covered about 18 Indio neighborhoods.

in hindsight, voters should have recognized that failure as a small precursor of things to come.

[Kropladop]

Either this wasn't regulated, The pilots/ advertisers didn't care, or it was all just a scheme to make the advertising companies get permits and pay premium prices to advertise at Coachella, probably the last one.

[xuclarockerx]

lol yeah i wondered about this during the weekend. no shortage of flying shit

speaking of, what the hell are those flying drone-looking robots on the main stage? remote-controlled cameras or some shit?

[JustSteve]

yup, cameras.

and maybe planes/copters just weren't allowed to fly directly over the fest, but around the perimeter, where it seems most stayed.

[FelonyFruitFlinger]

Here's the actual FAA NOTAM:

"!TRM 04/009 (KPSP A0107/12) TRM AIRSPACE AIRCRAFT CONGESTION 2000/BLW 2 NMR TRM311005 AIRCRAFT INCLUDING BANNER TOWING AND MEDIA, ARE STRONGLY REQUESTED TO REMAIN AT OR ABOVE 2000 TO ENSURE CROWD SAFETY. AVOIDANCE ADZD WEF 1204191500-1204231900"

English: Avoidance advised 4/19/2012 8am to 4/23/2012 12pm, 2000 feet and below, 2 nautical mile radius around the venue: "AIRCRAFT INCLUDING BANNER TOWING ..."

A similar NOTAM was posted for weekend 1. Looking up at all the flying stuff, I'd say they were probably at least 2000 ft.

[PlayaDelWes]

I think all stayed around the venue except that airplane with the streaming skrillex ad, which most certainly was above the venue and less than 2,000 feet.

[FelonyFruitFlinger]

Interestingly, the NOTAM is not a 'temporary flight restriction' (TFR). TFRs--stay the hell out of the airspace, no exceptions--are posted for legit stuff like presidential movement, forest fire-fighting, and the like. I don't think the FAA can bring about any enforcement action against pilots busting the 2000 ft./2 nm airspace. They may get a nasty phone call or something.

And for weekend 1, all the aircraft I saw were most definitely within 2nm, we couldn't have seen them otherwise. And I don't recall seeing any that I was sure were below 2000 ft. I tend to put a mental block on anything skrillex.

[menikmati]

Why was every advertisement for some shitty DJ playing some shitty club in Vegas?

[Kropladop]

Easy. Because people like seeing shitty djs in shitty vegas clubs.