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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. CRIMINAL REFERENCE IN TFRS RANKLES AOPA (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196411) AOPA says it's concerned about a not-so-subtle change in the wording of the text descriptions of temporary flight restrictions (TFRs). The FAA is now warning pilots they could be held criminally responsible for violating TFRs. AOPA says the agency has always had that ability but seeing it in black and white raises the specter that those powers will actually be employed. AOPA President Phil Boyer has written the FAA asking that pilots who accidentally bust TFRs not face criminal proceedings. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196411 Further, if legal balance is to be maintained, it would seem only equitable that FSS briefers who fail to brief TFRs should also be subject to criminal proceedings. |
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