John Theune wrote:
blanche cohen wrote:

There's a TFR today over DC for the State of the Union address.
I don't understand why when there's been a massive one in
place for the past 4 years.

While I don't agree in the need for the ADIZ, I think in this case it's
more justified then normal. The entire leadership of our country ( Both
sides )is in one building for the sotu and it's a good idea to ratchet
up security for that event. It's only 4 hours and if it were not for
the ADIZ I don't think anyone would complain about it. While the risk
of a light plane actually doing any damage is small, let's face it, you
could load 500 pounds or so of high explosive into a 172 and that would
make a fairly big hole in the capital building. I think that preventing
that kind of attack should start way before the plane gets in the air,
but for a short amount of time closing the airspace does make sense. The
security on commercial aircraft now makes the possibility of another 911
attack remote but that level of screening and airmarshalls just does not
exist for GA. Let's not over react to reasonable measures just because
they are over shadowed by un reasonable ones.

Sure, a light plane might poke a hole in a builing. Maybe. But as
fuzzy as my memory is, I remember a couple heavy airliners doing a lot
more damage a few years ago. Yet no one is calling for airline traffic
to be disrupted into the area. Why?