USA - All students must show "papers"

Strikes me the US has got it's priorities wrong again.
I recently passed through Minneapolis international
without having to go through a security check, and
this was while Airforce One was parked on the apron!
At every single other airport on this three flights
out, three flights back, trip I had to go through security!


If they think they can stop 9-11 style terrorists getting
flight instruction they're sadly mistaken, the ba$tards
will just get trained in another country.

At 14:18 14 October 2004, Acrawford wrote:
I happen to be a 'resident alien' -i.e. green card
holder rather than
a Citizen. I live here and have held a US pilot certificate
for many
years both Glider and SEL.

There are a lot of people like myself who call this
country home who
will have to jump through hoops just to get a BFR (I
don't work for an
airline so doesn't appear to qualify as Category 4),
or if we wanted
to work on a new rating, perhaps simply if I were to
show up at a
glider operation for a couple of days and wanted a
'check out' - that
would be a new training event at a new flight school
- OK that'll be
$130, a repeat investigation and sorry sir you can't
get a checkout
until we get TSA approval. Does that make any sense?,
does that add
to flight safety or rather detract from it by discouraging
additional
training?

As I interpret the ruling this is not a 1 time vetting
of the person,
this is an approval process for each new type of 'training'
that the
'alien' seeks.

Hi,

the ba$tards will just get trained in another country.

They can even get their training in the US under the new rules
as well.

What's to stop them? No security in the world can check the minds
of people and 130$ are nothing in the budget of even a one-man
terrorist-organisation.

Ciao, MM
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