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"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message ...
There are 39 TFR's this morning at 0700 when I checked them so I could
legally go flying, with one other reported but not displayed (ahaaa, I knew
it was bound to happen - TFR incognito)....
And it is fine that they only cover some fraction of 1% of the airspace,
unless it happens to be your airspace/airport, and your business is
bankrupt, and Admiral Loy giveth not a tinkers damn...

shamelessly cribbed from the web
You may have seen this before. It was written by Martin Niemoller about what
happened in Germany in the 1930s.

"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unions, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one to speak up."

Denny

Absolutely. But this isn't the only threat to GA. Avgas is $2.80 a
gallon! That isn't fair! We should do something about that! And
Insurance costs a fortune! And that isn't fair! We should do something
about that! And a new airplane costs $200,000! And that isn't fair! We
should do something about that! And I can't do aerobatics 3 miles from
the REILs of 36L at CVG! That isn't fair! It's a restriction on my
rights! We should do something about that!.

I'm not saying that we should simply let *everything* bad that happens
to GA go unchallenged. Don't know where you got that. But I *am*
saying we need to use discretion in what we do and what we fight for.
The scumbags on 9/11 used *airplanes* as their weapons. And fair or
not, there will be restrictions because of a public backlash against
that. No way around it. The only way to deal with it is to show (over
time) how beneficial GA is, and to attack the more egregious problems,
and pick our fights. You can't fight over everything.

It's like anyhing else. A 2% unemployment rate is fantastic...unless
you are one of that 2%. A 99% cure rate for cancer would be amazing!
Unless you are in that 1% that dies. It's unfortunate that the 0.1% of
restricted airspace affects people. But it's still 0.1% of all the
airspace we have. It's bad if the 0.5% of restricted airpors affects
you. But it's still only 0.5%. One has to keep perspective.

I'll certainly speak up..I'm not waiting until they come for me. But
speaking up against the DC-3 restrictions is different from going for
broke over the stadium TFRs. I'm picking what I want to fight for.

Cheers,

Cap





"Sydney Hoeltzli" wrote in message
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Captain Wubba wrote:

Come on Pete. As much as we complain, how much is really different
from September 1, 2001? Looking at a graphical TFR map of the US, it
appears that well over 99.9% of US airspace is *not* restricted any