Roy Smith wrote:

If you're a pax then you'll need to be accompanied by someone who
has an ASIC.

It's all been a right mess, courtesy of our wonderfull paranoid
politicians.

My home base is White Plains. I fly over Manhattan on a regular basis. I
fly right past Indian Point nuclear power plant almost any day. If I'm at
my tiedown and want to go take a leak in the FBO, I have to walk past more
bizjets than you can shake a stick at. But the ozzies won't trust me to
fly into a bloody sheep farm 1000 miles from nowhere???

The ozzie politicians don't trust us ozzie pilots either !

The sheep farm will be ok, provided it doesn't have *any* RPT
service, no matter how infrequent.
But if you want something trivial such as fuel or a nearby hotel
or a store, then you'll probably have to use a
'security controlled' airport, and a heck of a lot of them
have been designated as requiring an ASIC card.


For the last year this security crap has been a moving target
with crap like ;

- "you won't need the ASIC and its' background security checks
if you only require infrequent use at the designated airports"
(but they still haven't defined what 'infrequent' means or how
they'll check your usage).

- "you only need an ASIC plus or minus 2 hours either side of
an RPT movement"
(but how does one find when *all* the RPT movements occur ?
and with only a few daily movements those +-2hr slots
will overlap and effectively bar you)

- you don't need an ASIC outside of certain marked areas on
a mixed-use field.
(very site specific and details not widely publicised as yet)

The lastest interpretation seems to be "you need an ASIC to fly anywhere".

And here's a bizzare bit of innanity., there are GA fields that
don't require ASIC cards (no RPT services) and that are within
10 minutes flying time from major city-centres.






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