Re: Reveille overflight restriction area

On Sep 3, 11:42�pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

On Sep 3, 7:39�pm, obviouslydelusional <obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sep 3, 11:17�am, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

Can you scan it? My map is about 8 years old, so maybe I don't show
the restriction.

There is no infrastructure in that area as far as I know. They have
cut some roads to hill tops a bit south of the Cedar Pipeline ranch,
but nothing has been installed on the peaks.

Incidentally, there is this misconception that you have to drive on
the raw desert to climb Reveille. There is a road that goes to the
base of the mountain. You pick it up near the cattle watering spot. It
looks like a hell of a hike, but at least you haven't driven 26 miles
off road to start the hike. I didn't see any WSA signs, but those
signs get ripped down all the time. About half the power lines
observation area is WSA, though the signs are not there. I use other
spots anyway since the noise from the power lines is terrible. I'll
give Glenn credit for finding the spot, but now that free terrain
analysis is available, you can see the PLO is kind of a dumb place to
monitor.

My line of sight studies show that you can start to see the base
without having to be at the top of the peak. But the access to the
part of the hill that can see the base is not by the road.

It's not mentioned much, but you can see the base from the last false
summit on the way to Tikaboo. You miss the Red Hat Hangars, but that
is about it. I prefer to camp there rather than on the peak. Much less
wind, and if for some reason you need to get down the mountain, you
can lose altitude in a hurry from the camp site. The security chopper
buzzes the area sometimes at stupid o clock, just to make sure you
don't get a good night's sleep.

My map is older than 8 years, and it appears the Reveille flight
restriction is still being shown on current AF charts.

Case in point is this pdf file linked to earlier. �The last slide
(slide 15) shows the training routes and restrictions. �The Reveille
Special Overflight Restricted Area has a minimum overflight altitude
of 1,500' AGL. �Curious:

http://budget.state.nv.us/clearinghouse/jmac/USAF%20Warfare%20Center%...

Somehow, some way, aliens MUST be involved, otherwise it's not worth
getting out of bed in the morning.


<www.lazygranch.com/images/restricted/batley_haave.kmz>

I calibrated the map and made a KMZ. �I have no clue why there is a
flight restriction there other than maybe they don't want you to fly
into the peak. Of course, every peak would be marked, and that isn't
the case.

Perhaps it is an ancient Indian grave site. I recall Bill Whiflen's
"big dog" would turn around several times before laying on the ground.
I'm certain it had something to do with ancient Indian grave sites
around the range. In fact, these sites are probably on both sides of
the ET Highway. I say this because the desert hares run across the ET
Highway, presumably from ancient grave site to ancient grave site.


Doing a little poking around the BLM's land records system turns up
something intriguing.  In Section 24, T2N, R51-1/2E,  just north of
the Reveille mine claims, there is a 0.01 acre site listed as "N80656
R/W Res Tracking Sta", created 5/30/1990.  Interpolating from their
plats puts it at about:

N 38.0107666 W 116.18965

This is just slightly on the north slope of a peak shown as 7,923',
just north of the Reveille mine.  I'd guess it's actually the peak,
but within tolerance of my interpolating of the BLM records.  GE
doesn't show anything obvious on the peak, but the resolution isn't
the best.  It could be that a tracking station was never placed there,
but there's only one way to know for sure.

Curiously, it's just within the 3 NM restricted flight area, but not
centered in it.  It's in the SW quadrant of the zone, but just
barely.  So it doesn't appear that this "tracking station" would be
the reason for the flight restrictions.