I know it's a PIA to have to make a phone call before every flight.
It's an ineffective rule, and I would not like it much, either.

I live, work, and fly in the FRZ. The ADIZ is not just a PIA, it's
going to get someone killed (I would argue it already has). VFR
pilots have to report in at specific navaids, all at the same
altitude. It's a bit more than a PIA on a fine Saturday afternoon
when the controller is offline for some reason, and 20 or so GA
aircraft are all circling the same VOR, same altitude, with no
separation, stepping on each other and pleading for Potomac to pick up
so they can comply with the "squawk and talk" rule. It's a perfect
recipe for a midair.

IFR pilots now get routed via the "western tour", way out of their
way, since the controllers are busy with VFR traffic they've never
been staffed to deal with. While IFRers are burning all that avgas,
they get kept down low, out of the way, even in the summer bumpies
around the mountains. It's a little more than a PIA to clean up the
vomit from your passengers after one of those trips -- and you get
them every time.

I work within walking distance of an airport I can't land at. Flying
bombs (for that's what they've been used for) depart every 5 minutes
from DCA, but you can't land a C150 there for "security reasons."
Last month hundreds of pilots, fingerprinted and vetted, were denied
the use of their aircraft for 3 days straight in the FRZ because there
was a dead President in town.

But hey, you're tired of hearing it.


It's a relatively minor inconvenience that -- if it makes it
possible for us to still fly near Washington, D.C. -- seems like a
small price to pay.


That's one of the most dangerous things you could possibly say. It's
always just "a small price to pay." And how small a price is
$250,000? That's the currently proposed fine for an ADIZ violation,
supported in Flying magazine by Richard Collins (thanks, Dick). And
that's for a violation for which you are guilty until proven
innocent. Hardly sounds like freedom to me.

So sit there all fat and happy in Iowa, Jay, while you can. BTW, the
new chair of the Senate Committee on Aviation Operations, Safety and
Security is on record as saying that he believes GA operations should
have the same security precautions as commercial operations. Can your
FBO in Iowa City afford a metal detector?

The story guy's experience in the ADIZ. I have no idea what
happened with this guy, but I've learned to take these things with a
large grain of salt.

Yeah. There are people who don't believe the Holocaust happened,
either.

All I know is that I found it to be real no-brainer, little different
from how I fly in Iowa.

I don't know how you fly, so I won't even comment on that one.