Larry Dighera wrote in
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Is this new change TFR wording the result of our new Administrator
who, unlike the previous one, holds an airmens certificate?

While I believe those airmen who fail to get a briefing immediately
before departing, or who fail to concern themselves with current
airspace information published on Sectional Charts, or otherwise
display wanton negligence and disregard for FAA regulations may
deserve criminal prosecution, such criminal charges against a pilot
whose inadvertent violation of a TFR results in no harm nor hazard to
persons nor property seems inappropriate to me.


The very nature of a TFR makes this ludicrous. It's a TEMPORARY flight
restriction. Prior to 9/11, they were used for things like giving rescue
crews room to do their job after an accident or emergency (keeping
newscopters and other rubberneckers out of their way).

Aside from the new post-9/11 TFRs (ie: President beacons and sporting
events, etc) TFRs cannot be predicted preflight in many circumstances. To
prosecute for violating them is insane.

The result will be that pilots will be so afraid to violate a TFR that they
will always call for briefings every time they get in the plane (even if
it's a return trip from a $200 hamburger and they already had weather from
an hour before), and they will always use ATC services (flight following,
etc.).

The inevitable result of course is that our ATC and FSS systems will get so
intensely congested that flight delays will be blamed on unavailability of
services, and airlines will want to create laws to force all pilots to pay
for the services that they now are forced to abuse.

Oh, wait. Maybe we're already here.