On Feb 3, 12:21 pm, Newps wrote:
Alright, according to Wikipedia there are 609,000 active pilots. You do
the math.

I did. 99.9% of all pilots don't live in Iowa City.

3 mile radius for a few hours at a time. Big deal. I live in fire
country. We have more TFR's for that than all the rest of the TFR's put
together and the sizes and the shapes vary.

Firefighting TFR vs. national security TFR. No comparison. Fire TFRs
are hardly *ever* in the midst of complicated airspace, are so low
you'd have to crash into one to find it, and are trivial to navigate
around. All the ones I named are in and around B & C airspace, and
the consequences of violating them are egregious. There are no more
or less fire TFRs after 9-11. There are one hell of a lot more
"national security" TFRs after.


Those are criminal proceedings, pilot errors are administrative. Always
have been.

The distinction is hardly important when you're being led away from
the airport in handcuffs. How many times did you see that before
9-11? How many times were you randomly searched at an airport before
9-11? How many pilots were suspended in 2000? How 'bout 2005?
Compare the average suspension times before and after 9-11. AOPA did,
and it's drastically different. In 2000, NORAD scrambled fighters for
intercepts within U.S. borders a grand total of 0 times. In the 4
years following 9-11, they scrambled 1,600 times to intercept flights
within U.S. borders. Not one of the intercepted aircraft was a
terrorist, BTW.

Nothing changed there.

Oh good grief. Wake the hell up. Do you really believe that, or are
you just making sport of disagreeing with that mx guy?