TFR and UTC discrepancies screwing with my brain, my life and my children...

Hey doods!

So every year the FAA issues TFR's during the International Balloon Fiesta, which is hosted in my home town of Albuquerque, N.M. I personally use faa.gov for NOTAMS because I know this information is accurate. So just for grins I went to DJI's "Fly Safe" page to see if their NFZ information matched the FAA's. It's not even close.

Check out this screen shot from DJI's Fly Safe page:



According to DJI, the START time for the TFR is 16:00 UTC -6, which equals 10:00 which is 10:00 AM.
According to DJI, the END time for the TFR is 20:00 UTC -6, which equals 14:00 which is 2:00 PM.

This is preposterous. First off, Albuquerque is UTC -7. Not UTC -6. There seems to be a lot of confusion on this.



In fact, if you ask Google for UTC time, it's off by an hour.

According to Google:



But according to my World Clock:



This is a 1 hour discrepancy.

Second off, according to the FAA (NOTAM #9/8221), the TFR covers the following times:




According to the FAA, the START time for the TFR is 11:30 UTC. Since Abq. is UTC -7, this equals 4:30 which is 4:30 AM.
According to the FAA, the END time for the TFR is 18:00 UTC. Since Abq. is UTC -7, this equals 11:00 which is 11:00 AM.

Anybody who knows anything about ballooning knows that 4:30 AM - 11:AM makes FAR more sense than 10:AM - 2:00 PM. Most balloons have landed and are done for the day by 10:AM.

So what gives? Am I getting something wrong here? Can someone explain all these discrepancies??? Who do we trust? Who do we distrust?

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Disclaimer: I have no children. I just said that for dramatic effect.

snowghost said:

That is odd. But isn't Abq. on Daylight Savings. That makes it -6UTC. Like in LA it's -7 due to DST whereas we're normally -8.

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If you look at the screen captures in my original post, you will see that there is a 7 hour difference between London and Albuquerque.

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