ATC visit questions?? (Operation rain check)

He didn't say he was a pilot.

"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
oups.com...
Shouldn't showing your pilot certificate be adequete? Either way, it
seems kinda sad. Trading an insignificant amount of added safety for a
significant hassle that'll just discourage more and more people from
aviation.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL

I did an operation rain check last January at Potomac Tracon. They asked
for Pilot certificate number. Over 120 attended.
Michelle

wrote:

I was wondering if has anyone visited ATC facilities recently and had
to prove US citizenship. I have heard some people that visited Potomac
Approach were not asked for this, but Seattle Approach keeps blocking
non-citizens including permanent residents.

Thanks..

Baha Acuner
www.AcuWings.com

wrote:
I was wondering if has anyone visited ATC facilities recently and had
to prove US citizenship. I have heard some people that visited Potomac
Approach were not asked for this, but Seattle Approach keeps blocking
non-citizens including permanent residents.

Thanks..

Baha Acuner
www.AcuWings.com

I attended an Operation Raincheck last week at Potomac. They asked for
the citizenship in the initial e-mail and they checked IDs on entrance.

This is sad.. I am a permanent resident flight school owner (Part 61).
We have non citizen pilots, students. Obviously they all went through
the TSA process. Yet we cannot go to tracon..

I guess it is OK for me to train people but I am considered terrorist
when I want to go to the facility.

wrote:
This is sad.. I am a permanent resident flight school owner (Part 61).
We have non citizen pilots, students. Obviously they all went through
the TSA process. Yet we cannot go to tracon..

I guess it is OK for me to train people but I am considered terrorist
when I want to go to the facility.

Well, they didn't say that they wouldn't let non-citizens in, they just
asked for my country of citizenship. Being a Yankee, I don't know what
extra the non-citizens had to do.

We do regular ATC tours here in Dayton, OH and all noncitizens are
barred from attending, including the chief flight instructor who
organizes the tour.




"Jimmy B." wrote in news:e_b7f.881$AS6.3
@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:

wrote:
I was wondering if has anyone visited ATC facilities recently and had
to prove US citizenship. I have heard some people that visited
Potomac
Approach were not asked for this, but Seattle Approach keeps blocking
non-citizens including permanent residents.

Thanks..

Baha Acuner
www.AcuWings.com

I attended an Operation Raincheck last week at Potomac. They asked
for
the citizenship in the initial e-mail and they checked IDs on
entrance.




--
Andrew Sarangan
CFII
http://www.sarangan.org/aviation/

We do regular ATC tours here in Dayton, OH and all noncitizens are
barred from attending, including the chief flight instructor who
organizes the tour.

Are noncitizens barred from =working= at ATC?

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Jose wrote:
We do regular ATC tours here in Dayton, OH and all noncitizens are
barred from attending, including the chief flight instructor who
organizes the tour.


Are noncitizens barred from =working= at ATC?

All controllers are citizens.

Newps wrote:
We do regular ATC tours here in Dayton, OH and all noncitizens are
barred from attending, including the chief flight instructor who
organizes the tour.
Are noncitizens barred from =working= at ATC?
All controllers are citizens.

the funny thing though is that the soldiers or national
guards who sometimes guard these sensitive installations
and airports, in full battle gear, armed to the teeth,
do not have to be citizen...

--Sylvain

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wrote:
I was wondering if has anyone visited ATC facilities recently and had
to prove US citizenship. I have heard some people that visited Potomac
Approach were not asked for this, but Seattle Approach keeps blocking
non-citizens including permanent residents.

Thanks..


A group of friends of mine visited LAX Tower, and had no
problems. One of them was Canadian, and a student at Rutgers
University. He showed them his identification, and was allowed in.

One thing I haven't liked for a long while, is the lack of
continuity amongst the facilities regarding operation Rain Check. ZLA
and LAX definitely were friendly enough to allow visits, where L30 and
KLAS wouldn't give you the time of day (even said that Operation Rain
Check ended/doesn't exist anymore). Either has to be all, or none. And
since Rain check is in consistent use, it should be all.

BL.
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