Just to let you know. I keep my Coupe at a county airport which like most in the area has commercial service. Yesterday, I went down to get a new photo ID to allow me to enter the Air Operations Area, AOA, (flight line to me). They picked up enough information and authorizations from to me to check with the FBI and the Social Security Administration to show that I am who I say I am. They are going do a Security Threat Assessment (STA) on me. There is a new Security Directive (SD) out that requires the new ID and the STA, but at a public meeting on Monday by the TSA, when requested to supply a copy of the SD, their answer was -- NO -- for National Security reasons. So I assume every body who flies in and out of airports with commercial service is going to be required to follow a SD that they can't read and don't know what it says. By the way, it is up to a $10,000 fine for not following the SD.
Once I get my new ID, I can go onto the flight line -- sorry the AOA, but they want me to report anyone without an ID -- can I get fined if don't report someone? If I fly into an airport with commercial service (every county airport around here), my ID is no good. By the SD, remember the one I can't see, I can't leave my aircraft without being escorted by someone with a local ID. The worst part is someday I will have an accident if I have to wait for an escort -- with a four hour plane and a two hour bladder, I see trouble over the hill. If any airport really tries to follow these rules, it will about kill the air show and the fly-in business at airports of any size. There ought to be a law. Richard NC99904 MTJ
