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Don't send letters, send a fax. All congressional mail now goes through
decontamination and takes a couple weeks to get there. Better, call and follow up with a fax. Talking points: 1. The bill requires the DHS to establish TFRs whenever the threat level is orange or higher. If the level is raised because of a specific, credible threat in Los Angeles this language requires TFRs everywhere, even the East coast. 2. During the immediate post-9/11 period the FAA issued a nuke TFR but refused to release the geographic coordinates of the plants to pilots so they could avoid the facilities. Are we to be faced with the same dilema for thousands of sites across the country, or is the government going to release "targeting data" to the public? Is there even a navigational data base available with the locations of all "sensitive" installations? 3. Given the large number of installations involved (potentially thousands) the entire Victor airway system along with possibly hundreds of instrument approaches would be compromised. Virtually all IFR GA traffic would be halted. 4. Many DOE facilities and other installations described in the legislation are already located inside Restricted areas. 5. Congress should not be trying to micro-manage the Executive branch. Dave Reinhart John wrote: C J Campbell wrote: On February 11, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) proposed the amendment titled "Secure Existing Aviation Loopholes." Hmm, Markey's my Congressman. Frankly I'm not surprised by this, although I am surprised that his colleague Marty Meehan (D-Mass) didn't come up with this first. Any suggestions for explaining in a letter why this is a bad idea or is that just a waste of my time? About 3-4 years ago, AOPA had a legislative alert to contact Senator Kerry (D-Mass) about a pending bill. I tried, even called his office, but I might as well have tossed a fruitcake at a freight train. I finally did get through to some staffer who explained to me that all of my ideas were wrong, have a nice day. |
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