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Old July 7th 06, 03:01 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Denny
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Default The FAA continues it's war on General Aviation

How many of us have written ( a real letter with a stamp) to our
senator and congress critter outlining the reasons that the Washington
ADIZ is insane bureaucratic excess and asking that they introduce
legislation abolishing the ADIZ for aircraft under 12,500 pounds?

For starters mention that the payload of the average Lycoming four
banger will not provide enough explosives to do real damage..
That no small GA aircraft has been implicated in an act of muslim
terrorism, whilst RYDER trucks continue to be freely available to
anyone with a drivers license, a suicide bomber in a hijacked semi can
haul 80,000 pounds of explosives right up to congressional offices,
and airliners fly over Washington passing within five seconds of the
capital buildings many times an hour...
Point out that the bureaucratically imposed restrictions upon the use
of thousands of square miles of public airspace has not been subject to
legislative review and a vote... I would expect any rules to limit the
constitutional right of the citizenry to travel through Washington DC,
would require a vote of both houses of congress... I would expect a
regulation depriving the citizenry of the use of 7,850 square miles of
public airspace to require a Constitutional Amendment...
Point out that the rules that put US citizens face down on the tarmac
with a gun in their back for crossing an invisible line in the sky
needs to be equated to doing the same thing to car drivers who might
take a 'forbidden but unmarked' ramp onto the freeway... What if
drivers had to take special training to drive within 100 miles of DC?

Those who are not a vocal part of the solution, are a part of the
problem...

denny