See the latest on the AOPA website regarding this issue.
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2009/090224badges.html The TSA has extended their deadline for compliance and is meeting with industry representatives to consider alternatives and to find solutions better suited to GA. Roy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Willis Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:38 AM To: JThomas Terry; Richard Wilkens; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ercoupe-flyin] There Ought to be a Law Importance: Low Here in the UK we have been getting some of this stuff for a while now, particularly when an airport tries to get new commercial traffic. Someone flew into Blackpool airport last year in a Cessna and needed some oil. The store was "landside". When he goes back to the airport entrance he is told he has to go through security in the terminal. There he is not allowed to take liquids through and was asked for his passport. "But I'm a pilot" he complained. "Show us your licence" was the response. "It's in my bag in the plane!" He ended up going back outside, throwing the oil bottle over the fence, and then getting through security using his drivers licence. Welcome to the 'security' club! Mike On 26/2/09 16:26, "JThomas Terry" <[email protected]> wrote: No, No, Richard: The problem is there are too damned many laws already! Security is one thing, but the direction and directives being forced on GA are ridiculous. Tommy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] <mailto:[email protected]%5d> On Behalf Of Richard Wilkens Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ercoupe-flyin] There Ought to be a Law 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 ________________ Alon A2 A-188 G-HARY www.ercoupe.co.uk
