hi!

Thanks for all replies.

Just a follow up to the reply below.

How about the runways at these airports?
Or are there seperate GA runways at the majors?

I just want to find out how these things are working other parts of the
world, because there are some new legislations about to be imposed, and it
would be good to try to influence them somewhat...

Again, thanks,

Frode Berg


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Frode Berg wrote:

No one has "scanned" him at the grass strip, and thus he is not "clean".
He could be carrying a s***load of explosives on board and tax over to
the commercial planes, right?
Doeas he have to stop at the taxiway and be "checked" out by security
before taxiing to the hangar?

Do you have any rules for these sort of things in the US or other parts?

Some. There are no rules for scanning people loading and departing from
private strips, and few (if any) rules at what we call uncontrolled
airports. But you can't land a light plane at a commercial airport and
just taxi up where the commercial planes are. At some airports (like
Shenandoah Valley Regional in Virginia), there's a line on the pavement.
You stay on one side and the commercial guys are on the other. You could
get as close as perhaps 30 meters before someone yells at you. On one
hand, a suicide pilot could cross that line and travel that 30 meters
before anyone could stop him. On the other hand, the commercial flights
out of SHD carry only perhaps 15 passengers.

At a larger airport (such as Knoxville, Tennessee), the closest you could
get without the controller complaining would be more like 200 meters. It's
much more likely that someone on the ground could do something to stop you
if you tried to taxi into an airliner there.

At a major airport (such as Atlanta or Newark), there's no way you'd be
able to get anywhere near the commercial planes.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.