"Roger Long" wrote in message
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These new TSA training rules, however improved, are an excellent case
study
in security.

Let's look first at the background. Before 911 and all the hysteria, a
flight instructor noticed that an odd guy seemed to only want to learn how
to take off and aim the plane without landing. The CFI alerted the FBI who
acted like he was reporting an alien abduction. Someone in the FBI did try
to take it seriously and had her (I believe) career destroyed for going
around the organizational obstruction to the information being passed up
the
chain of command. But, someone in aviation did notice that something funny
was going on, even in those innocent days.

So now, if someone wants to learn how to aim an airplane while holding a
Koran in one hand and chanting "Allah is great" while they do it, they
won't
be able to learn in the normal aviation training environment. History has
shown that, in a typical flight school environment, someone is very likely
to notice that something is wrong with the picture and report it. This
time
around the FBI might even pay attention to the report (although I wouldn't
bet my life on it).

Not being able to train in a normal flight school will not prevent the
determined terrorist from getting enough stick and rudder skills to carry
out an attack. There are plenty of drug runner pilots and similar types
who
would teach him for a fee and out of anyone's view. The TSA rules will
simply move illicit training to where it is less likely to be noticed
while
putting yet more burdens on the law abiding. The primary effect will to be
to prevent aspiring aero-terrorists from making the mistake of trying to
learn in the environment where they are most likely to be detected.

Do you feel safer yet?

--

Roger Long





TSA, Police, FBI = window dressing

The other night I caught a car prowler even took a photo/video of the person
prowling the neighbor hood cars and when confronted he blamed me as being a
racist and that he was just selling oil change coupons.

I told the officer that I don't care if he is white, hispanic, black,
yellow, green, or red when someone knocks on the door, then rings the door
bell at 9 PM at night and when you don't answer they start looking in your
car windows that's car prowling. The prowler said he was looking for oil
change stickers yea right. Police did not do anything because a race issue
was brought up. They police threatened to charge me for harassment because
the prowler brought up the race issue. Even though he was trespassing and I
have video surveillance of him looking in the car windows.

I called the auto lube co the next morning and they denied sending anyone
out to sell oil change coupons and they do not advertise that way.

This same situation I believe could happen to a flight instructor or maybe
worse. An instructor may deny a foreign middle eastern man flight
instruction because he feels that they may be a security risk or something
else and the instructor gets sued for racial discrimination or charged with
criminal discrimination. Now if the TSA denies the foreign student flight
instruction so be it its out of the instructors hands.