Most of Louisiana Restricted??

[wallyballs]

Im sure this is due to the Hurricane, but is it common to restrict flight for 30 days over such a large area? The center of the circle is Baton Rouge LA, its probably 300 Miles wide..This is from the DJI site, is there a better mapping site? This was as far as I could zoom out Picture taken from DJI site

 

[Rchawks]

Man, it looks like the measles!

 

[Thomas B]

Disaster area?

 

[wallyballs]

Disaster area

this circle is 150 miles from an area that was lightly effected by the storm

 

[Kaydet]

Yep - Hurricane Laura impact. The center is a few miles from Ft Polk. POTUS was there this week visiting the hardest hit areas. I'm not sure but I suspect Air Force 1 flew in and out of Ft Polk, then he traveled around the area by helo. I heard that commercial drone ops (for storm damage assessment) were temporarily suspended that day. I checked the NOTAMS and there is nothing active now.

 

[hiflyer201]

I'm not showing a single flight restriction or TFR in the entire state of Louisiana on the Foreflight. there is a future NOTAM at KBTR (Baton Rouge) for 9-8-2020 7:00 am to 12:00 pm surface to 400ft. 1/4 mile radius 3 SSW of KBTR ..That's Class C airspace
KBTR shows the closest TFR as being 30 south of Midland Texas.

 

[wallyballs]

I'm not showing a single flight restriction or TFR in the entire state of Louisiana on the Foreflight. there is a future NOTAM at KBTR (Baton Rouge) for 9-8-2020 7:00 am to 12:00 pm surface to 400ft. 1/4 mile radius 3 SSW of KBTR ..That's Class C airspace
KBTR shows the closest TFR as being 30 south of Midland Texas.

I seen this on the PC and also on in the fly app..I understand the storm, and if POTUS was there.. A 30 day blanket seems long, especially that from from damage

 

[hiflyer201]

I can't see how that can be enforced or by whom??

 

[Kaydet]

This zone appears to be only of DJI's making, at least at this point. Unfortunately you will have to go through the self-unlock process to fly anywhere in LA or about 4,600 square miles (12,000 square km)

 

[lookout]

Yep - Hurricane Laura impact. The center is a few miles from Ft Polk. POTUS was there this week visiting the hardest hit areas. I'm not sure but I suspect Air Force 1 flew in and out of Ft Polk, then he traveled around the area by helo. I heard that commercial drone ops (for storm damage assessment) were temporarily suspended that day. I checked the NOTAMS and there is nothing active now.

Ft Polk had a GPS interference testing thing a few weeks ago. I guess if the hurricane hits it, there will be another outage.

There's a TFR now from the Houston Coast Guard.

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