TSA Security Rule, applies to who, and who's taken it?

"Robert M. Gary" writes:

It sounds like you are giving instruction illegally. You must have a
valid TSA certificate to give flight instruction now. You need to go to
http://www.aopa.org/tsa_rule/ and learn how to do it. Its easy and
quick. I don't think there is any failure possible. I probably failed
mine but it "passed" me and issued the certificate.

I had a quick discussion about that with Phil Boyer after the recent
AOPA Town Meeting in northern Virginia a couple of weeks ago. He says
that the reading he got from TSA is that (a) they don't have any mechanism
in place to find out who has taken the test (do'h!) and (b) they're more
interested in getting the "security awareness" of the CFI community raised
than they are with punitive enforcement.

I'll agree that the "training" is a good example of how *not* to design
training material, but if it does make the aviation community *think*
about security issues then it's achieved at least part of its intended
function.

Joe Morris