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For years there has been discussion of a Class B area for Portland Oregon. It's still a Class C, but the new VFR Terminal Area Chart suggests that ATC wants us to treat it as a Class B.
Until recently the 1:250,000 Portland Terminal Area Chart was an inset on the Seattle Sectional. Now it's a separate publication. It covers a larger area than the old inset, and adds three north-south VFR transition routes at prescribed altitudes - "Timbers Route" over HIO, "Blazers Route" over PDX, and "Thorns Route" over Crown Point in the Columbia Gorge.
The note in the margin says "Operation on transition routes at or below 4000' MSL requires ATC authorization from Portland Approach Control. Until authorization is received, remain outside the Class C airspace." That's a more stringent requirement than as set forth in 91.130 for Class C airspace -- and two of the three published routes don't even enter the Class C.
Is a Class B for Portland just around the corner?
Until recently the 1:250,000 Portland Terminal Area Chart was an inset on the Seattle Sectional. Now it's a separate publication. It covers a larger area than the old inset, and adds three north-south VFR transition routes at prescribed altitudes - "Timbers Route" over HIO, "Blazers Route" over PDX, and "Thorns Route" over Crown Point in the Columbia Gorge.
The note in the margin says "Operation on transition routes at or below 4000' MSL requires ATC authorization from Portland Approach Control. Until authorization is received, remain outside the Class C airspace." That's a more stringent requirement than as set forth in 91.130 for Class C airspace -- and two of the three published routes don't even enter the Class C.
Is a Class B for Portland just around the corner?