"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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Basically, [driving a car] considered a priviledge because the roads
are owned and maintained by the State and local governments.


... and who owns the airspace?

IMHO, George should have written "Basically, it's considered a privilege
because the roads are NOT owned by the driver". If you owned your own
airspace, you'd have the free and clear right to fly within that airspace.
But you don't...you share the airspace with everyone else (and the federal
government has effectively taken ownership of it anyway), so the federal
government imposes rules.

It's more about who doesn't own the place where you exercise the "right" or
"privilege" than it is about who does own that place.

Pete