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Citrus County aviation board asks staff to draft policy after proposal to close runway for kids triathlon
Summary
Organizers asked to briefly close a runway so children can bike a loop as part of a Citrus County Kids Triathlon; board members and FBO operators raised safety, FAA approval and revenue concerns and voted to place a policy-development item on the next agenda.
Chris Molling, representing DRC Sports and the Citrus County Education Foundation, asked the Citrus County Aviation Advisory Board to allow a short, scheduled runway closure so the senior course of the county kids triathlon could include a single loop on the airport runway.
The proposal would close the runway for roughly 60–90 minutes on the morning of the event so about 400 children could use the runway and taxiway as part of a supervised, time-trial bike loop. Molling said event staff would post lighted X’s at the runway ends, station deputies at the gate, use course marshals and perform a finish-of-event foreign…
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