In article , David Brooks wrote:
But the TSA has affirmed that their rule applies to resident aliens also. We
form 13% of the pilot population, and we not only got past immigration, we

Also, I think the cost of doing the full TSA thing borne by the student
is in the region of $450 (there's more than one fee-bearing process you
have to go through).

Fortunately, you can still get a BFR or checkout without the TSA
requirements (the TSA has since clarified the requirements and
specifically excluded BFRs and other recurrent instruction for
already-rated pilots) - otherwise all my future flying vacations would
have been in Canada, not the US.

In fact, for getting new ratings, Canada's a better bet. It's probably
cheaper to pay for a CFI in a border town to come over with the N-reg
plane than pay all the TSA fees. This is why the TSA's assinine new
regulations won't make a speck of difference - there are other countries
without these assinine rules.

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