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Old 11-05-2014 | 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by bradpaul
Yeah with SP you often have to explain things like the 3 nm exclusion zone. But it does bring up a question on how the exclusion zones are calculated? Is it from a fixed point or from any boundary of an protected site? For something like a venue for a event that is easy to determine but what about an airport or an site like Disney that has multiple widely separated amusement parks?
I can't speak for Disney but airports use the geographic center of the active runways as the central point. As a guess the venues may use the geographic center of the property boundaries but that is just my opinion.

Frank