This Thursday there will be a TFR in Illinois for a VIP. It extends out to the airport that I train at. The TFR states that no flight training is allowed. If I solo and stay in the pattern, is that considered flight training?
This Thursday there will be a TFR in Illinois for a VIP. It extends out to the airport that I train at. The TFR states that no flight training is allowed. If I solo and stay in the pattern, is that considered flight training?
Yes. Get a beacon code from the ATC facility overlying your airport, fly to an airport outside the TFR, and conduct pattern work there. Or wait on pattern work until the TFR is over.
Good idea. And talk this over in detail with your instructor before you do it, including what happens if they won't let you back in when you're done at the outlying field.Ok thanks guys. Maybe I'll make a plan and go somewhere else for pattern work.
Good idea. And talk this over in detail with your instructor before you do it, including what happens if they won't let you back in when you're done at the outlying field.
Stay home and watch TV. Seriously, its hard enough learning to fly an airplane without the added issues. Fly another day. Summer is almost here, there will be lots of good days to fly.
Don't rely on ATC to keep you in compliance either. I worked a case not too long ago where ATC inadvertently led a pilot into a TFR violation. While I was able to prove that it was not the pilot's fault, it took a lot of work on my end.
Fly safe!
Well I decided to fly this morning with the TFR. It was actually a good experience. I just called up flight service and asked them if they could give me more information on the TFR. We just did what they told us and everything worked out OK.
No I went with my instructor. I didn't want to mess anything up and then have fighters shadowing me.