Rachel wrote:
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?
Rachel;
Did you read my post? Let's face it, you can turn a 172 into a cruise
missile like device. It's not very likely and the solution to that
problem should not be to close the airspace all the time, but for a
special occasion like the SOTU where all the leadership of both parties
are in a single building, then it does make sense to try to make it as
secure as possible. GA is never going to convince the rest of the world
that we are being unfairly picked on unless we show that we can live
with reasonable restrictions and I don't think closing the airspace
around DC for 4 HOURs is unreasonable.