TRA email from FAA

[Let'sgoflying!]

How is a TRA different from a TFR?
Or is it just a renaming?


FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education
FAA Sources for Temporary Restricted Area (TRA) Information
Notice Number: NOTC7310

The FAA will soon begin limited use of a Temporary Restricted Area (TRA) in certain areas when the types of operation(s) to be conducted there require a TRA. The flight rules that apply to a TRA are the same as a Restricted Area (RA). The best FAA resources to view any TRAs upcoming or active are the FAA Special Use Airspace (SUA) website and the Notices to Airmen Publication (NTAP). Please use the following links to access these resources before a flight:

https://sua.faa.gov

www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/notices/

For questions or more information contact:
Scott Rosenbloom
Phone: 202-267-3783
Email: scott.rosenbloom@faa.gov

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[iamtheari]

I don't get it, either. What can a TRA do that a TFR cannot? Why do we need another "thing" for this?

 

[vontresc]

Look on skyvector around Twentynine palms. they expanded the MOAs and restricted areas for some sort of wargame exercise. The FAA notification should have mentioned these so we can figure out what the hell they are warning us about.

 

[steingar]

FAA motto: We're not happy until you're not happy.

 

[denverpilot]

Look on skyvector around Twentynine palms. they expanded the MOAs and restricted areas for some sort of wargame exercise. The FAA notification should have mentioned these so we can figure out what the hell they are warning us about.

Floating a new way to not have to officially expand Restricted Areas and MOAs because that brings public meetings and scrutiny.

Much easier to just yell "safety!" and pop one of these up.

 

[wsuffa]

If PRK lights up there will be a lot of them, very quickly....

 

[ISaidRightTurns]

TFRs allow for tons of flights into them ("as authorized by ATC", certain landing aircraft, LE, etc). Restricted airspace is very different and requires a waiver to operate in. So TRAs are much more restrictive than TFRs.

 

[iamtheari]

TFRs allow for tons of flights into them ("as authorized by ATC", certain landing aircraft, LE, etc). Restricted airspace is very different and requires a waiver to operate in. So TRAs are much more restrictive than TFRs.

What stops a TFR from being that restrictive? Sure, most of them allow some or even lots of flight, but the TFR mechanism seems to be flexible enough to handle everything a TRA needs to do. TFRs generally say "No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM (except as described)." The exceptions can range from "anyone on a discrete squawk code" to none at all. Fire TFRs are a good example that typically don't have any exceptions other than direct firefighting aircraft.

 

[ISaidRightTurns]

What stops them from using a TFR is that there is no applicable CFR that covers issuing a TFR for military exercises. The TFR can be as restrictive, but my point was that entry requirements for a TFR can be pretty straight forward (in the NOTAM or waivers.faa.gov), where entry requirements into restricted airspace are much stricter.