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Old October 20th 12, 08:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Craig Funston[_2_]
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Default SSA Board Meeting in Charlotte 10-20-12

On Friday, October 19, 2012 7:53:32 PM UTC-7, T wrote:
On Oct 19, 2:27*pm, Craig Funston

wrote:

On Friday, October 19, 2012 9:37:01 AM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:


On 10/19/2012 8:27 AM, Steve Leonard wrote:




On Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:57:42 PM UTC-5, Andrzej Kobus wrote:




Very interesting especially this:




http://www.ssa.org/files/member/DHS%...SC%20pilot.pdf




Wow! *I wonder who got the "honor" of that beat-down? *So glad that




our government and law enforcement is there to protect us, even if it




has to kill us to do it.




We have a power reactor and other nuclear related stuff north of us




(Richland, WA). That area has "For reason of national security, pilots




are requested to avoid flight below 1800' MSL in this area". That's




about 1300 AGL. As I understand it, it's just a request, not a requirement.




If they are only two miles from an airport, it seem they would see a lot




of aircraft in the 1000-2000 foot AGL range, either over them or nearby.




Maybe it was the circling that bothered them? In any case, it was nutty




to think about "shooting down" any aircraft that they had time to worry




about. An aircraft with evil intentions would simply fly straight into




the reactor, long before they could arrange any "shoot down".




I wonder what is missing from what we've heard so far; at least the FAA




got it right, as I would expect.




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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to




email me)




Is the copy of the AOPA letter available directly from the SSA website or from AOPA? *I've gone into the member's section and don't find it.




Thanks,


Craig




2nd and3rd posts have links to the letter on the SSA site.

T


Thanks guys, I noted the referenced link and downloaded the PDF of the letter days ago.

I just went looking for it using a different path to confirm its veracity. Not that I would ever doubt something I've seen on RAS ;-) The whole thing has the weird vibe of an urban legend and I was trying to get it straight from the original sources. My point was that I didn't find a way to get to the file containing the AOPA letter on the SSA website. Seems like the logical place to find it might be "News".

Cheers,
Craig