A corporate jet captain reported penetrating restricted airspace after he was forced to deviate from...

Narrative:

Upon the route; thunderstorms were heavily building to the north and I requested deviations to the south. We were then cleared direct to destination where I had to request more deviations for thunderstorms. When handed off to next controller; I was informed of 'military operating airspace' that was active and asked if we could fly a more northern heading to avoid the airspace. I told ATC I was unable due to heavy thunderstorms to the north of our current heading. When I looked at the high altitude chart; I then saw that our current heading had us directly over the florida panhandle shoreline where we penetrated restricted areas R-2919A; R-2919B and R-2915A. I could not have flown south of these areas due to restricted over water operations and was unable to fly north around these areas due to heavy thunderstorm activity. ATC did not alter my path nor incline that there was any issue of this airspace penetration during the entire flight. As for corrective action; ATC could have possibly altered my route to fly north of the entire system otherwise; weather avoidance and safety take precedence in a situation like this.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A corporate jet Captain reported penetrating restricted airspace after he was forced to deviate from his course toward the restricted airspace due to weather and could not circumnavigate the restricted airspace because of overwater restrictions.

Narrative: Upon the route; thunderstorms were heavily building to the north and I requested deviations to the south. We were then cleared direct to destination where I had to request more deviations for thunderstorms. When handed off to next controller; I was informed of 'military operating airspace' that was active and asked if we could fly a more northern heading to avoid the airspace. I told ATC I was unable due to heavy thunderstorms to the north of our current heading. When I looked at the high altitude chart; I then saw that our current heading had us directly over the Florida panhandle shoreline where we penetrated restricted areas R-2919A; R-2919B and R-2915A. I could not have flown south of these areas due to restricted over water operations and was unable to fly north around these areas due to heavy thunderstorm activity. ATC did not alter my path nor incline that there was any issue of this airspace penetration during the entire flight. As for corrective action; ATC could have possibly altered my route to fly north of the entire system otherwise; weather avoidance and safety take precedence in a situation like this.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1464509
Time
Date	201707
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZJX.ARTCC
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Light Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 112 Flight Crew Total 2952 Flight Crew Type 529
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

A corporate jet captain reported penetrating restricted airspace after he was forced to deviate from his course toward the restricted airspace due to weather and could not circumnavigate the restricted airspace because of overwater restrictions.