The FAA recently stirred things up with their issuing of order5190.6B. This
is the airport compliance manual. It contains all of the regulations and information on how public funded airports and landing areas operate. The manual went from 94 to 691 pages!
Here are the parts that have many concerned.
- No more auto-fuel may be used in aircraft since this is not an approved aviation fuel. (I went to the FAA site and looked over the manual, like usual government publications, it’s buried in there somewhere and I could not find the part that states this. 691pages!)
- Trailered aircraft like light sport, powered parachute,weight shift and gyros can not enter public landing areas. The EAA clears up some of this and this seems to have been a misunderstanding of the rules by airport operators.
Here is what I make out of this. At some public airports there are residentuial properties next to them with hangers and aircraft facilities that
use the airports. The FAA calls this through-the-fence (TTF). These residential operations and/or commercial operators will no longer be allowed to enter the public airport property for flight operations.
The EAA has intervened to clear up the trialered aircraft interpretation.
It seems that airport operators misunderstood the rules.
These new rules do not apply to private airports or landing areas like airparks. Please leave a comment on this topic as there is still much confusion in understaning the exact deatails of this FAA order
