"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:3mOcd.261792$MQ5.111337@attbi_s52...
The TSA stuff. Non US-citizens having to be photographed,
fingerprinted, forms filled in, $130 paid, records kept, all by each
instructor you go to for a BFR (probably) or checkout (maybe).
The instructor has had to go through mandatory "security
awareness" training in order to do all this

Interesting.

I'd be willing to bet that none of the instructors here in Iowa City know
anything about any of that stuff -- and there are a fair number of foreign
pilots training here, thanks to the University of Iowa.

Or, at least, I've never heard any of them talk about -- and you would
think
it would be a major topic of discussion.

I'll have to check with them when I next see them.

Thanks, would be interested to hear what they've been told.

There are quite a few threads on this on rec.aviation.piloting...for
instance:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=....microsoft.com
(or http://makeashorterlink.com/?L24162E89 )

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl...mb-m01.aol.com
(or http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y45121E89 )

It's not only people from overseas that are affected, it's also US residents
who aren't citizens.

Paul