Strikes me the US has got it's priorities wrong again.
I recently passed through Minneapolis international
without having to go through a security check, and
this was while Airforce One was parked on the apron!
At every single other airport on this three flights
out, three flights back, trip I had to go through security!


If they think they can stop 9-11 style terrorists getting
flight instruction they're sadly mistaken, the ba$tards
will just get trained in another country.

At 14:18 14 October 2004, Acrawford wrote:
I happen to be a 'resident alien' -i.e. green card
holder rather than
a Citizen. I live here and have held a US pilot certificate
for many
years both Glider and SEL.

There are a lot of people like myself who call this
country home who
will have to jump through hoops just to get a BFR (I
don't work for an
airline so doesn't appear to qualify as Category 4),
or if we wanted
to work on a new rating, perhaps simply if I were to
show up at a
glider operation for a couple of days and wanted a
'check out' - that
would be a new training event at a new flight school
- OK that'll be
$130, a repeat investigation and sorry sir you can't
get a checkout
until we get TSA approval. Does that make any sense?,
does that add
to flight safety or rather detract from it by discouraging
additional
training?

As I interpret the ruling this is not a 1 time vetting
of the person,
this is an approval process for each new type of 'training'
that the
'alien' seeks.