In Reply to: If it's air traffic control, private planes are grouned, too. posted by mh on November 13, 2026 at 16:29:07
I tried to advise KNX Newsradio about this, but they didn't put my information on the air. There is no ground stop ala 9/11/01 restricting private aircraft, except those planning to fly at or above 18,000 feet.
I called the pilot info lines (frequencies while in the air, phone numbers available for most of them) at several airports, and heard the latest info. (They are updated between ~45 and ~55 past each hour, more often if there are drastic changes in weather conditions.)
Anyway, takeoffs and landings from airports like Brackett (my home airport, in La Verne), El Monte, Montgomery (in San Diego), and Camarillo, all have General Aviation planes able to take off and land. What they are NOT doing is allowing any IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) plans to be activated, and VFR (Visual Flight Rules) pilots cannot obtain Flight Following, a service that allows Air Traffic Control to keep an eye on us, advise us of other traffic to watch for, keep us out of the way of planes on IFR plans, etc. So no IFR, and no VFR Flight Following.
General Aviation is basically everything that's not a scheduled commercial service or the military. So private jets could theoretically take off and fly to their destinations, but they wouldn't do it because (a) they fly above 18,000 feet, and (b) there's no way in hell a fast private jet is going to fly purely by visual reference.
Considering the context of your post, it's safe to assume that no CFB teams will be piling into Cessnas or Pipers to get to their games for tomorrow.