Maybe THEY can post a TSA agent or a US Marshall at every
airport to check for ID, drugs, certificates, "Your papers,
please NOW"

After the computer check, logbook check and drug/alcohol
screening you get to fly. It would make aviation "safer"
and the user fees would pay for the SERVICE.

Some Congressman proposed that before every take-off the TSA
would have to approve every flight and that would include
the rancher in Wyoming checking his fences and cattle with a
J3 Cub. Every time he landed, he'd have to get another TSA
approval, luckily that was stopped [nasty AOPA lobbied it
dead] but the evil forces in government will try anything.


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The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties.


"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
et...
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| "RK Henry" wrote in message
| ...
| On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:14:59 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
| wrote:
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| "Jim Macklin"
wrote in message
| news:0SARf.117287$QW2.428@dukeread08...
| European and UK rules may be different, in the USA,
the name
| on an IFR flight plan as PIC must be a current IFR
rated
| pilot.
|
|
| "Must be" and "is" are not necessarily the same; there
is no cross-check
| at
| the time the flight plan is filed.
|
| Even if there were a cross-check that a pilot holds an
instrument
| rating, there's no practical way to cross-check whether
the pilot is
| instrument current.
|
| RK Henry
|
| It is all a moot point as one could simply use the name of
any known current
| instrument rated pilot.
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|