Secret No Fly Zone
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Fleming, 70, had been arrested for breach of peace after flying
his Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18 sailplane noiselessly over the H.B. Robinson
Nuclear Generating Station at an altitude of 1,518 feet mslby his estimates,
about 1,000 feet over the power plants domeon his way to search for lift at
nearby Lake Robinson.
No airspace restrictions were printed on sectional charts; no notam marked the
area off-limits. When a woman at Hartsville Regional Airport relayed over the
Unicom that law enforcement wanted him to land, he had flown to that airport and
landed, greeted by a swarm of law enforcement vehicles.
Nonetheless, Fleming spent the night awake in a cell with 11 other inmates. The
next afternoon, still in custody, he discovered the details of the charges:
flying very close to the nuclear plant dome in a no fly zone´, escalated a
multi-jurisdictional call out to a homeland security situation, ordered
several times to land, causing the disturbance throughout the community.
He finally left the detention center 24 hours after his arrest, exhausted and
eager to clear his name. The charges were dropped the next month, but now
Fleming wants to make sure no other pilots are subjected to a similar ordeal.
Thanks to Brad and Mike
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