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I know that many of you are AOPA members and probably get the AOPA online newletter. But anyway, if you're not aware of the following, you might be interested in reading about it. - from AOPA newsletter- FAA CAN NOW REVOKE PILOT CERTIFICATES FOR SECURITY THREATS The FAA and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today will publish "direct final rules" that permit the FAA to immediately suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue a pilot certificate to anyone that the TSA has determined poses a threat to transportation security. The agencies issued the rules under the authority Congress gave them when it passed the Aviation Transportation Security Act of 2001, which directed TSA and the FAA to "make modifications in the system for issuing airman certificates related to combating acts of terrorism." Although AOPA solidly supports every reasonable action to prevent terrorist acts, "these rules beg many questions as to the rights of pilots," said AOPA President Phil Boyer. ===================================================== TSA and FAA are inviting comments and may alter the rules but it would have been nice if they had accepted comments before, not after the fact. http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2003/03-1-041x.html It seems to me that these new rules could be easily abused. Of course, AOPA's legal dept is all over it and for that I'm glad. Spook __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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