TSA rules are what was easy, they did something, that made
the media and public "happy" because they did something.


"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
message ...
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| "Martin Hotze" wrote in message
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| B A R R Y schrieb:
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| I know a 17 year old Indian kid who just passed his
PP-ASEL at a local
| FBO flight school. He's not a US citizen, and no laws
were broken.
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|
| A friend here just made his type rating (Citation 1,
IIRC) in the US. He
| tried hard to find an alternative outside the US but he
had no luck. So
| he had to go through all the hassle with fingerprinting
(cost him an
| extra flight to Paris only for that), a ton of
paperwork, special
| treatment at immigration, ...
|
| It was really made almost impossible for him to spend
those 10 or 20
| AMUs in the US ...
|
| As you said: it actually _is_ possible, but at what
cost?
|
| Well, we did have a bunch of non-US citizens train to fly
in the us and then
| highjack planes and use them to kill 3000+ people. So of
all the rules and
| laws that have come down the pike since 9/11 this one
probably the most
| logical.
|
| And as you said he couldn't find an alternative outside
the US so I guess we
| aren't all bad.
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