Karl Vogelheim

Document ID: FAA-2012-0661-0004
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: August 17 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 17 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: August 14 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: October 15 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 810e1a0c
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Amendments to Class B Airspace: Detroit, MI

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I fail to see what this expansion of Class B airspace gives Detroit Approach that it doesn't already have. Adding more airspace just gives the controllers more workload in an already busy airspace area. Raising the ceiling of the airspace doesn't do anything other than make it more difficult for aircraft to pass through this area for no gain in safety for those aircraft, or for the aircraft going into Detroit Metro. All this plan does it make it more difficult for any VFR traffic to go through, above, or around the airspace to anyplace close to the Detroit area (like Ann Arbor, MI or Toledo, OH). It will add another layer of requests for entry and/or flight following and additional work to control IFR traffic that the Detroit Approach doesn't currently have to worry about. How does this help exactly?