On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 02:33:29 GMT, Jose
wrote in : :

The likelyhood that an aircraft flying around Washington DC
is a threat is miniscule. I am comfortable continuing with this
assumption.

That's because you don't live and work there. :-)

The DC ADIZ is protection against an imaginary monster in the closet.

While that may be true of the FRZ, the DC ADIZ is protection against a
very real monster in an F-16.


What would you propose in place of the DC ADIZ and FRZ?

Class E and class B airspace, the way it was in 2000.

That sounds good to me.

The cat is out of the bag. Just as you cannot reasonably defend
yourself from being hit by gunfire while walking down the street, we
cannot reasonably defend ourselves from having our own high-energy
devices turned against us. There are too many of them, manned by too
few people, too low on the pay scale. You'd need armed guards around
every gas station's storage tank valve, escorts for every delivery truck
in the city, and a listening watch on the entire internet and cellphone
network.


Right. Effective security renders the system unusable.