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Dave wrote: "What is needed is pressure from groups such as AOPA, and EAA in concert with the individual pilots voices to present not just a complaint but to offer reasonable solutions to the problem. Bitching is easily overlooked but solutions to a problem are not as easily overlooked or ignored." I do agree with your statement above but the reasonable solution is simply to go back to just the way things were. The risk from General Aviation is no greater today than it was last year. We fly small aircraft with low mass and fuel loads and do not make enough of a bang to be of real concern. This is all "Chicken Little" junk and it needs to be dealt with as such. Real good people are having their lives ruined by people who do not accept that in war we have some casualties. We did not pick this war but it is here and we can all sit at home and go broke like the Afghanis have done or we can continue our lives the way we chose to live them and accept some small number of casualties. Before you all get all excited by that concept we do this every day!! Yes the death toll on our highways is a prime example. We kill thousands every year and that is accepted as the price of being able to drive where and when we want. I see flying as no different. Yes some bad people drive drunk and kill innocent people and we do only small things about that because we understand that we can not stop every person who will drive drunk. We try to stop it with education and some enforcement but in the end it is accepted as the price of the freedom. In aviation we lose people every year and we try hard to reduce the number but we will continue to lose many every year. If we stop some nut from using a general aviation aircraft with punitive flight restrictions they will just use a Ryder truck or find an inventive way to use a small boat. If they are willing to trade their life for some of ours they can not be stopped as a practical mater. We can be cooperative and try to make sure that we do not encourage the use of General Aviation aircraft by being vigilant in the way we run our airports and flying schools but in the end if they are determined they can make a mess. Let us all try to accept some common sense approach to the problem and see to it that "We the People" win this war by continuing to live our lives the way we have for the last several years and add the will to stamp out the territories where ever they are. This way we win and will also have security again, such that we can. Best regards, Vern ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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