"John T" wrote in message news:
"Happy Dog" wrote in message
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A frigging *radio* would have made sense.
...
But you probably would have remembered to try 121.5.

You may be unaware of a couple key facts. Both aircraft had functioning
radios and the initial instruction from the Blackhawk was to tune to
121.5. However, there was other traffic (I've never understood exactly
what, but the consensus is it was an ELT) on that frequency that prevented
its use. More valuable time was lost trying to figure out a) a new
frequency and b) how to communicate that to the errant 150.

Crap. Read the report and try again.

Homeland insecurity at its best. Imagine if they'd killed these
guys. Nah. They're not *that* stupid...

Yeah, it's real stupid to risk getting shot by not knowing where you are.
DoD and DHS claim to have learned valuable lessons, but I can only hope
other pilots have learned there is an ADIZ around here with special rules
and special penalties.

Every violation hurts our chances of getting the damned thing dismantled.

Especially when it's almost a given that there will be some innocuous
violations.

More info and opinion:
http://sage1solutions.com/TknoFlyer/PermaLink,guid,4ebaf403-5dbd-479f-8514-355334db4275.aspx

There are substantial differences between this account and AOPA. Explain
them.

moo