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1. 08:30 AM - Re: HUGE INCREASE IN MOAs PLANNED...Please Help!!! (William Hunter)
2. 09:15 AM - Re: HUGE INCREASE IN MOAs PLANNED...Please Help!!! (Charlie England)
3. 09:19 AM - Re: $20 HF Battery Load Tester (Robert L. Nuckolls, III)
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| Subject: | Re: HUGE INCREASE IN MOAs PLANNED...Please Help!!! |
Fellow Aviators,
Sorry this post is off topic for aircraft electrical systems however
this issue will affect thousands of pilots...and their airplanes that
have electrical systems (that's the aero-electric connection)
Can you please help us get the word out and fight this issue?
The Military is planning on expanding the geographic size and lower the
height of the MOAs in central Arizona and New Mexico down to 500 AGL and
this will negatively impact hundreds of airports and make if very
difficult for GA pilots to circumnavigate these larger chunks of airspace.
Here is the map of the airspace that they want to increase:
https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/overview-of-proposed-action/
<https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/overview-of-proposed-action/>
This MOA increase is way bigger than the pilots who fly through or to
the airports under the MOA. If you look at the Air Force map it affects
a HUGE CHUNK of Arizona and New Mexico.
This will not just negatively impact GA pilots because the Air Force is
wanting to allow sonic booms 24 hours a day in this expanded region so
that means EVERYONE WHO LIVES/ VISITS/ HIKES/ RIDES/ DRIVES/ BOATS/
CAMPS UNDER THE MOA will be negatively impacted!!!
We have lots of ranchers and horse people and they are really concerned
about their livestock getting heart attacks.
Can you imagine riding a horse and have a fighter jet scream 500 feet
overhead at 600 MPH?
Can you imagine riding a motorcycle or out camping and have this happen?
This is a BIG DEAL that will affect hundreds of thousands of people each
year so we are asking for the help of our fellow aviators to contact the
Air Force and the elected officials (contact information below) and get
the word out to stop this.
If you frequent other social media for hiking/ biking/ camping/ etc can
you please post about this?
Does anyone have a connection with the AOPA/ EAA/ etc that can help?
Here is a write up that we would kindly ask that you share and act on.
Please help and again sorry for the off topic post!!!
We are ALL AFFECTED...SO WE SHOULD ALL SPEAK OUT!!!
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How would you like to be relaxing at home, on a drive, riding, or out
camping and have an Air Force fighter jet roar 500 feet above your head
at 600 MPH???
How would you like to hear a SONIC BOOM at any moment of the 24 HOUR DAY
(you dont know the boom is comingjust unexpectedly there is a VERY
LOUD EXPLOSION all around you and it can break your windows)???
How would your animals like to experience this really loud and startling
explosion? Would your animal have a heart attack? Would you...or the
person driving your car/ motorcycle?
Well guess what???
The Air Force is wanting to GREATLY EXPAND their Military Operations
Area (MOA) jet training areas outward and down to ONLY 500 FEET ABOVE
THE GROUND in HUGE SECTIONS OF ARIZONA/ NEW MEXICO.
You think I am joking??? Here is the map of the airspace that they want
to increase:
https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/overview-of-proposed-action/
<https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/overview-of-proposed-action/>
THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE WHO LIVES/ VISITS/ HIKES/ RIDES/ BOATS UNDER THE
MOA!!!
PLEASETHE PEOPLE OF CENTRAL ARIZONA/ WESTERN NEW MEXICO NEED TO FIGHT
THIS!!!
EACH PERSON IN YOUR HOUSEALL YOUR NEIGHBORSYOUR FRIENDSYOUR RELATIVES
ALL NEED TO HELP US AND CALL AND SEND AN EMAIL TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
TO STOP THIS!!!
Send this message to your friends who hike, camp, ride, boat, fly
airplanes and post it on every forum you know.
Here is the contact websites for our federal representatives and Air
Force so please CALL THEM and send them the attached letter:
AZ US Senator Mark Kelly: 602-671-7901https://www.kelly.senate.gov/
<https://www.kelly.senate.gov/>
AZ US Senator Kristen Sinema: (602)
598-7327https://www.sinema.senate.gov/contact-kyrsten
<https://www.sinema.senate.gov/contact-kyrsten>
AZ US Rep Paul Gosar: (928) 445-1683https://gosar.house.gov/contact/
<https://gosar.house.gov/contact/>
AZ US Rep Tom OHalleran:
928-286-5338https://ohalleran.house.gov/zip-code-lookup?form=/contact/email
<https://ohalleran.house.gov/zip-code-lookup?form=/contact/email>
AZ US Rep Raul Grijalva: (623)
536-3388https://grijalva.house.gov/contact-raul/
<https://grijalva.house.gov/contact-raul/>
AZ US Rep Ann Kirkpatrick:
520-881-3588https://kirkpatrick.house.gov/contact/email-me/
<https://kirkpatrick.house.gov/contact/email-me/>
NM Senator Martin Heinrich: (575)
523-6561https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/contact/write-martin
<https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/contact/write-martin>
NM Senator Ben Lujn:
575-252-6188https://www.lujan.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/
<https://www.lujan.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/>
NM US Rep Yvette Herrell: (575)
323-6390https://herrell.house.gov/contact
<https://herrell.house.gov/contact>
Military Website:https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/comments/
<https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/comments/>
Write:
NO On The Expansion Of The Military Operations Area In West-Central Arizona!
I am providing specific information relevant to the Proposed Action:
-The Air Force should take NO ACTION to modify or expand the MOA airspace.
-More jet noise will ruin the quiet enjoyment of our residential
properties and camping/ riding/ boating/ hiking areas.
-Sonic booms sound like a large explosion and this noise will damage our
homes and scare people, livestock, and wild animals.
-These MOA changes would greatly reduce our property values as rural
residential property.
-There are 40 airports in the Gladden MOA alone that will be affected.
-The use and enjoyment of camping and hiking will be negatively affected
by jet noise.
-How would these loud noises negatively affect the native species of
birds, animals, reptiles, and insects?
-What kind of long term environmental impact studies have been conducted
and what are the results?
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| Subject: | Re: HUGE INCREASE IN MOAs PLANNED...Please Help!!! |
Just replied to your post over on HBA.
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| Subject: | Re: $20 HF Battery Load Tester |
>Living in Switzerland it's not so easy to get such a unit (all this high amp
>testers are 500-1000 $!!) I did source a 100A one (see link below),
>so will test soon (ordered via a friend in the US that 500A "clearance"
>model for the future :)
>
><https://www.harborfreight.com/100a-612v-battery-load-tester-61747.html>https://www.harborfreight.com/100a-612v-battery-load-tester-61747.html
I've been aware of this offering by HF for years but
didn't pay much attention having a strong bias for the
more capable, well instrumented carbon pile load
tester. I was also skeptical of the "100A" load claim,
things just didn't 'look' that robust.
Tried to pick one up at HF a couple weeks ago. No joy.
Nearest store with stock was 150 miles away. Started
poking around on the 'net and discovered that this
device has many cousins and ancestors going back decades.
Nearly identical testers were offered under a constellation
of brands and prices . . . from $20 at HF to $160 at some
fru-fru autoparts stores. Found offerings on eBay for
used testers that had been around for a very long time
. . . with some individuals hoping to get too many
dollars for devices too often rode-hard-and-put-away-wet.
Even found some re-branded by Schumacher of well known
battery test and maintenance products.
Okay, went ahead and ordered one off some website.
It came in last week and I just had to get a quick
looksee on fabrication and performance. Don't have
time right now to cite all the details but know
that it IS INDEED and 100A load (measured 106A on
a well maintained 100Ah battery). Also opened it up
for a non-destructive teardown.
I'll be doing a Bob's Shop Notes on this product
and its clones. But for now, know that IT IS
a useful alternative to some more expensive (and
bulkier) test sets.
I would not discourage the notion to acquire one before
I can do the big data dump, At $20 from HF, it's a good value.
Bob . . .
Un impeachable logic: George Carlin asked, "If black boxes
survive crashes, why don't they make the whole airplane
out of that stuff?"
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