Message posted by Gabe on March 12, 2021 at 22:37:13 PST:

ALTRVs are treated as any other piece of SUA. The basic principal being, you aren’t separating the aircraft participating, you’re separating non-participating aircraft from the block of airspace (by staying 3nm/1000ft etc from the limits of the airspace, you’re guaranteeing that you’re that distance from participant aircraft). I wouldn’t be surprised if whatever is operating in the ALTRV never talks to ATC or uses a transponder, there’s really no need for it, just activate the airspace by phone and call it a day. That’s just ALTRVs in general though, there used all over the place (eg for large scale missions to move aircraft off a carrier to restricted areas, to move mass amounts of participants from a base to a restricted area, etc). Could even be to coordinate a boat mission for Red Flag. That being said, 450-600 would be exceptionally high for a large boat mission.

In Reply to: Re: High altitude reservation Saturday evening posted by Mojo on March 12, 2021 at 17:14:16 PST:

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