"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
news:iJ7ed.229500$wV.153455@attbi_s54...
"G Farris" wrote in message
...
The
regrettable incident in Florida, too soon after 9/11, proved to the
public
that security lapses can exist in General Aviation,

There was no security lapse in that incident. A student was allowed to
pre-flight an airplane unescorted, shortly before the student was to be
signed off to solo anyway. Preventing such access would have been
completely
pointless. Even under some of the more draconian new restrictions (at BED
now, we need to undergo a fingerprint background check in order to have
unescorted access to the ramp), that student would still have had the
same
access privileges!

Well, let's drive the nail home, shall we? Even if fully implemented, the
new TSA rule would have had no effect on this incident. Unless maybe he
didn't have a birth certificate.

-- David Brooks
Believe!!!!!