Fly Over the Boston Marathon

[corcoran]

corcoran added a new event:

Fly Over the Boston Marathon

This is the only official BAC fly-in where we meet in the air. We will do this with a lot of other air traffic over Hopkinton, Massachusetts. That's the starting place of the Boston Marathon. Briefly, we meet and see 25,000+ runners. Then fly the marathon route as far as the edge of the Boston Class Bravo (8dme from BOS). Fly to the airport in nearby Norwood (KOWD) and get in the official BAC van. We then drive to the race halfway point just in time to see the lead runners pass. While we are...

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[cmmguy]

Dont they put a TFR over the marathon?

 

[jhbecker]

Tom's been posting this event every year and so far there's been no flight restriction except for the usual, busy Boston air space.

 

[gjjessup]

TFR 5/6001 will be live on the day, but it's only SFC-2000AGL.

 

[corcoran]

Gordon,
I think the TFR only applies to drones. If it applies to manned aircraft that would be new. However, I will check with the Boston FSDO and report here. Thanks for the heads-up.
drift... Reading the text of 5/6001 made me notice that NOTAMS are still published in ALL CAPS and are made even more difficult to read by homemade abbreviations. These days we have enough bandwidth to make NOTAMS (air missions) be reader friendly.

 

[gjjessup]

If the weather is good, count me in.

 

[corcoran]

Confirmed by Liedos Flight Service: NOTAM 5/6001 only applies to drones (or missiles and rockets I guess).

 

[mvanover]

Naw, under 2000 ft you'd have to switch from missiles/rockets to guns.

 

[Mouseflyer]

Boston Marathon Fly-In was a success. Glad to see more participation from last year.

Longest distance was Gordon Jessup traveling 120nm each way.

Attendees

Gordon Jessup
Tom Corcoran

 

[gjjessup]

Naw, under 2000 ft you'd have to switch from missiles/rockets to guns.

Ghost 1 and Ghost 2 flew out of Bradley and shadowed me to their flyover.

 

[gjjessup]

Boston Marathon Fly-In was a success. Glad to see more participation from last year.

Longest distance was Gordon Jessup traveling 120nm each way.

Attendees

Gordon Jessup
Tom Corcoran

Thanks again for organising this Tom, it was a great day out!

 

[gjjessup]

Tom, you certainly were flying some crazy holding patterns whilst waiting for the flyover!

It looks like I was not much more than a mile in trail once we got to flying the course.