ABC News - Flying is a US Freedom

Anyone else see the online commentary by John Nance that it is a
freedom to be able to fly a plane?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Flyin...ory?id=1251850

Thanks, Dan

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:19:35 GMT,
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Anyone else see the online commentary by John Nance that it is a
freedom to be able to fly a plane?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Flyin...ory?id=1251850


"While descriptions of the freedom of flight seem more attuned to
the roaring '20s and the age of barnstormers and daredevil airmail
pilots, what we had in those more innocent days we still have — in
spades.

America, in aviation terms, is truly a unique land of endless
opportunity. While most nations in the free world allow some
private flying, many countries make it a difficult freedom to
exercise, weeding out all but a few would-be private pilots with
high costs and higher taxes, a scarcity of airports, and an
abundance of oppressive rules and regulations about where a mere
individual pilot can go.

Flying for the pure joy of it, in other words, tends to be
primarily the province of North Americans (with Australia being a
close second)

[...]

That's a freedom we mustn't take for granted."



Nance needs to deliver that message on the floor of Congress.

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Anyone else see the online commentary by John Nance that it is a
freedom to be able to fly a plane?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Flyin...ory?id=1251850

Thanks, Dan


I guess those of us outside the USA aren't enjoying a US freedom?

Looks like a pretty good article although a bit narrow. Many countries other
than the US etc., are able to manage a flying population. So he is a bit
short there. Otherwise not to shabby.
I also think he should make the pitch to Congress.....
Even better. we as pilots should start voting out some of the deadbeats in
Congress!!

Outside the USA? There is such a place as "Outside the USA"???

(nyuk-nyuk)

AJ

"AJ" wrote in message
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Outside the USA? There is such a place as "Outside the USA"???

(nyuk-nyuk)

AJ

New York and California are the only two I know about. :-)

Well, Mr. Nance is proselytizing in the U.S. Other countries should
have aviation "evangelists" of their own.

AJ

"AJ" wrote in message oups.com...
Outside the USA? There is such a place as "Outside the USA"???

(nyuk-nyuk)

AJ


Only once you fly through the ADIZ...


;-)

"AJ" wrote in message
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Outside the USA? There is such a place as "Outside the USA"???

(nyuk-nyuk)

AJ


Ah yes, more geographic chauvinism, from the country that most seeks to
exert it's influence beyond its border.

Happy landings,

Private wrote:
Ah yes, more geographic chauvinism, from the country that most seeks to
exert it's influence beyond its border.

well, exerting one's influence beyond one's borders is a sure
way to learn about geography...

--Sylvain