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Airport staff outline operational effects of continuous Mar-a-Lago flight restriction at PBI
Summary
Chair Nancy Pullum convened the Citizens Committee on Airport Noise to hear Palm Beach County airport officials explain a continuous presidential temporary flight restriction that went into effect around Mar-a-Lago and to take public comments on resulting changes to Palm Beach International Airport operations.
Chair Nancy Pullum opened the Citizens Committee on Airport Noise meeting and turned the floor to Laura Beebe, director of the Palm Beach County Department of Airports, and Senior Deputy Director Gary Saipak for a briefing on a newly published temporary flight restriction (TFR) affecting the Mar-a-Lago area.
"Palm Beach County, as the owner and operator of the Palm Beach International Airport, has no jurisdiction whatsoever to regulate aircraft in flight," Beebe said, adding that the FAA has exclusive authority over navigable airspace and that the Secret Service requests specific security requirements that the FAA then issues as a NOTAM. She said an FAA air traffic control manager was willing to attend but was prevented from coming by a government shutdown.
Saipak displayed the FAA NOTAM for the Mar-a-Lago…
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