The plan was a pretty simple one: We would fly up to Loar Field (83G) in southern Michigan, where my son would pick us up and we would go golfing for Father's Day. Candidly, I enjoy the flying part a lot more than the golfing part. The real pleasure, of course, would be spending time with my son. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Loar Field, it is a grass strip just south of Brooklyn, Mich., with about 2,600 feet of runway. The owners of the property are very friendly but there are no services on the field.It was my son who first mentioned it ... the fact that Michigan International Speedway (MIS) was having a race that weekend. You see, Loar Field is less than two miles from MIS. I had heard something about the race, but for the most part I was not worried because I have technology backing me up. On any trip outside my home base area, I use both AOPA's Flight Planner and Control Vision's AnyWhere Map to keep me clear of TFRs. AOPA's Flight Planner downloads current TFRs when you first log in. TFRs then show up on a printable map. AnyWhere Map allows you to download TFRs just before your flight and they update their database every hour. After being downloaded onto my IPAQ, the TFRs show up on my moving map in the airplane.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/fathers-day-tfr