"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:PNmJb.733077$Fm2.638775@attbi_s04...
Keep in mind that even though airspace over Camp David (P40), for example,
is charted and well known, it can be expanded with little notice

I know. It's a real, *known* problem.

The problem is, it ISN'T apparently "known" by as many pilots as we would
like to believe.

There ARE cases where pilots from out of the area were not told of the
inflatable TFR over P-40, or even of the SFR area over DC. The "157"
number includes all violations since 9/11, including the early days
when FSS and ATC could be pretty confused sometimes themselves.

What I'd like to see is violations/month or something like that. And
violations per TFR that's constant vs the pop up or inflatable TFRs.
These would be more useful measures.

I can only shake my head in disbelief that 157 pilots could make such a
mistake -- it makes us all look ridiculous. I mean, this isn't Mayor
Daley's suburban Chicago house, for chrissakes, this is the PRESIDENT'S
residence. Even us bumpkin pilots from Ioway know where THOSE are, and
surely any pilot should be able to steer a wide berth around 'em.

The interesting thing is that 1) GA hasn't been in any publicly known
terrorist incident in North America, and 2) Commercial avaition has,
and 3) National airport is maybe all of 30 seconds flight time from
downtown DC.

Yet somehow GA gets all the attention and National's still open, but
only to commericial av. Even the guys at FSS think this is bogus and
that the ADIZ is at least partly window dressing.

I fear we're heading for a huge problem with this issue... :-(

I do agree on that! GA is small and an easy political target.

-Malcolm Teas