President Trump's Bedminster vacation to impact area airports

<p>President Donald&nbsp;Trump is set to take a 17-day vacation in New Jersey, prompting a Temporary Flight Restriction for area airports.</p>

News 12 Staff

Aug 3, 2017, 10:04 PM

Updated 2,455 days ago

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President Trump's Bedminster vacation to impact area airports
President Donald Trump is set to take a 17-day vacation at his golf resort in Bedminster beginning Friday.
The vacation comes with a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) for area airports. People who make their livings in the sky say that these restrictions will have a financial impact on their businesses.
The TFR means there is a “no-fly zone” for 10 miles around the Bedminster Estate and another 30-mile radius of flight restrictions.
Jodi DiPane co-owns TriState Aviation, a flight school based out of Central Jersey Regional Airport in Hillsborough. She says that she has been reminding her pilots about the TFR.
“When [former President] Obama was in Hawaii or at Martha's Vineyard, there were a lot of complaints then,” she says. “But we didn't hear much about it because it didn't affect us directly."
There are 21 airports in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvanian that are impacted by the flight restrictions.
“The general public it doesn’t affect that much,” says pilot Al Jordan. “But anybody that runs a flight school, this is their living.”
DiPane says that the Hillsborough airport has made arrangements with the Secret Service to make an exception for banner-plane operators now that this is their most lucrative time of the year, flying over beaches.
Solberg Airport in Readington is among the airports that will have to close altogether during President Trump’s visit. News 12 is told that airport officials also met with the Secret Service to try to work out a way to stay open.


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