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JOK Pilots,

New FAA Mandate:

Jets Over Kentucky 2021 will be affected by the new mandate.  "Model activity can proceed only by closure of the airport."  Memphis FAA handed down this decision last week.  However, Atlanta upon receiving this new request stated they would never approve of airport closure for 10 days.  

This put us in a very precarious situation, and produced tremendous stress on me, and the airport!  We produced a solution by which the FAA might accept.  This solution gives us 8 hours of UNINTERRUPTED flight time each day.  

The next item was to produce times for the airport to be open.  We decided that the airport would open until 10:00am, and from 3:00pm-5:30pm. That gives us 10:00 to 3:00pm, and 5:30pm until 8:30 for 10 days to fly UNINTERRUPTED.  

That's the best we could get, and we're coping with a mandate that all events will now have to deal with.  We understand if some might not attend, but this is a consequence BEYOND OUR CONTROL.  We anticipate this to still be our best Jets Over Kentucky to date, and hope you understand our current situation.

FAA approval of JOK is 100% assured; just a formality now.  Should get our paperwork Tuesday.

Respectfully,

Lewis Patton