Ted
The pilot formerly known as Twin Engine Ted
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Want to share some frustrations I had yesterday, and maybe some of our ATC friends are able to shed some light on this.
Yesterday I flew from KCKM (Clarksdale, MS) to KMMU (Morristown, NJ) for a dog flight. There was what looked to be a Presidential TFR in the area. MMU was in the outer ring of the TFR.
Normally, I get direct MMU and then as I get closer I get rerouted in typical NY fashion. But most of the trip is direct. In this case, I got a reroute that added 100 nm from the start, and took me on airways all the way up to southwestern NYS, and THEN direct. Filing was at FL210 in the MU-2, not an altitude that gets in the way of airliners.
Of course, as I approached SW NYS I got rerouted, and rerouted again... and finally direct airport But by then the damage was done, adding over 100 nm to the trip. Realistically the whole ordeal probably added 20-30 minutes to normal. There was no weather to speak of yesterday in basically the entire country.
Here's my question: WHY?! I can understand saying all traffic going into the area of the TFR must go through a specific fix. Fine. But why do I need to get on airways that add significantly to the route all the way to that fix? Why does the fix have to be over 200 nm northwest of the airport when I'm coming from the southwest?
Leaving MMU wasn't much better. 40 minutes on the ground idling. That was about 24 gallons of fuel. In that 40 minutes only 5 aircraft took off ahead of me at MMU - we were all waiting. Normally MMU is much busier.
Yesterday I flew from KCKM (Clarksdale, MS) to KMMU (Morristown, NJ) for a dog flight. There was what looked to be a Presidential TFR in the area. MMU was in the outer ring of the TFR.
Normally, I get direct MMU and then as I get closer I get rerouted in typical NY fashion. But most of the trip is direct. In this case, I got a reroute that added 100 nm from the start, and took me on airways all the way up to southwestern NYS, and THEN direct. Filing was at FL210 in the MU-2, not an altitude that gets in the way of airliners.
Of course, as I approached SW NYS I got rerouted, and rerouted again... and finally direct airport But by then the damage was done, adding over 100 nm to the trip. Realistically the whole ordeal probably added 20-30 minutes to normal. There was no weather to speak of yesterday in basically the entire country.
Here's my question: WHY?! I can understand saying all traffic going into the area of the TFR must go through a specific fix. Fine. But why do I need to get on airways that add significantly to the route all the way to that fix? Why does the fix have to be over 200 nm northwest of the airport when I'm coming from the southwest?
Leaving MMU wasn't much better. 40 minutes on the ground idling. That was about 24 gallons of fuel. In that 40 minutes only 5 aircraft took off ahead of me at MMU - we were all waiting. Normally MMU is much busier.