FAA imposes immediate VFR restrictions at Centennial Airport

The FAA ordered a sudden prohibition of touch‑and‑go operations, placed restrictions on parallel departures and limited pattern work at Centennial Airport around the first weekend of October, and instructed air traffic controllers to stop simultaneous parallel departure operations until safety mitigations are identified.

AOPA noted on October 8 that the FAA had not issued a NOTAM or updated the airport’s ATIS with the new restrictions, despite the airport handling well over 300,000 operations annually, and Brad Schuster of AOPA was informed of the measures by the Colorado Pilots Association on October 4.