Lansing to lose international flight
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Lindsay VanHulle 11:59 p.m. EDT September 1, 2014

Seasonal flights to Orlando and Jamaica were lost when Mendota Heights, Minnesota-based discount carrier Sun Country lost its contract with Apple Vacations in 2013.(Photo: GANNETT MICHIGAN)

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Annals of the Security State, Presidential-Vacations Edition
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I believe I am the only amateur pilot who’s a Democrat. Okay, I’m exaggerating. I can think of four others. No, five! Therefore when people in the aviation community talk about the effect of “Presidential TFRs”—the 30-mile-radius no-fly zones, known as Temporary Flight Restrictions, that travel with a president wherever he is—they often begin by saying, “Welcome to Obama’s America …” or “That idiot Obama has done it again…” The complaints started some other way between 2001 and 2009.

Politics apart, I give you this account from someone who flies the same kind of small propeller airplane as I do, but who happens to live in the vicinity of the Clinton-and-Obama-preferred summer vacation site of Martha’s Vineyard. He originally posted this on a pilots’ private-discussion board but agreed to its reposting here. I’ve added a few explanations of aviation lingo in brackets, [like this]. This person, who uses his plane to fly himself on business trips, writes:

I just spent the last two weeks living with the presidential TFR on Martha’s Vineyard. I flew through the TFR nearly every day, commuting to work and with other activities. Unlike past years, I did it mostly VFR, IFR days excepting, of course. [VFR is Visual Flight Rules, the c…………… continues on The Atlantic

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