A number of years ago, a Congressman proposed that ANY
airplane approaching the USA without a clearance that would
not answer a radio call be shot down. War on drugs, this
was before War on Terror. They were very serious, any
airplane.
So I contacted a few Congressmen and Senators and told them
what the procedure would be, a light twin or even business
jet would depart the Caribbean resort headed for Miami or
Atlanta. After take-off they would open their flight plan.
But an electrical failure would knock out the lights, radios
and navigation. The transponder would not work. Navigation
errors or perhaps an engine problem would put them well off
the flight plan. ATC would know that some airplane had a
problem,
But the "unknown" aircraft would be picked up by military
radar and since it would not have a transponder and might
even be at low altitude, fighters would be scrambled.
Running with no lights and "refusing to answer" radio calls,
it would be shot down and three Congressmen would be killed
returning from golf in the Bahamas.

The idea died.


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"NW_Pilot" wrote in
message . ..
| Wow what a weird conversation today!! A few reps /
attorneys in my district
| were at the bar were talking about the latest GA crash in
NYC so I had to
| listen in so I bought one a drink at started to mingle a
but. They were
| talking about making flight plans mandatory and mandatory
VFR reporting
| points/routs in large city's & near schools. By this time
I had to interrupt
| them and tell them how the voting general aviation public
would frown upon
| them rules....they were not assertive and were not willing
to listen and
| told me that the general aviation part of the public is to
small to make a
| sway in this argument and they will do what ever that they
decide they think
| is right for the rest (majority) of the public.
|
| These guys had no idea about what general aviation really
was until I
| brought up that the small jets that they fly in for their
spur of the moment
| trips is considered general aviation then they started to
listen a bit.(yea
| because now it concerned them) I explained how it would
make it more time
| consuming to the pilots and also, over load the already
stressed controllers
| by dumping hundreds or even thousands of extra VFR traffic
in to the system
| for them to deal with. They responded that it's their job
and they would
| have to deal with it!
|
| Gawd I hope the U.S. don't end up like the European
bureaucracy when it
| comes to VFR flying!!!!!!!
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