GA Terror Threat

Better yet, call the local newspaper and/or TV station and ask to talk
to whoever does their general news... Offer to buy them breakfast (the
honey) and then take them for a short flight...
Talk up Gen Av at breakfast (do your homework because some of these
"dummies" can ask sharp questions)... Point out that modern airplanes
have keys just like cars which means they have to be 'broken into' to
be stolen, so why is it the pilots fault that his airplane that might
be stolen, but it is not the car owners fault that his car might be
stolen......
What we are doing here is promoting attitudes and view points that will
influence how they report on aviation in the future - perhaps we can
get rid of the old, " ... and NO flight plan was filed." gasp,
horror...
Point out that any SUV/Pickup/Van can carry many times the load of
explosives that a single engine airplane can, and so forth... Also
stress that the national airspace is public property just like the
parks, sidewalks, streets, highways, lakes, rivers, etc. and that you -
and they - have a constitutional right to use these public spaces, so
why should the owner of a small airplane be subjected to restrictions
that do not apply to cars, boats, trucks, etc.?
Also try to make the point that statistically we kill 110 people a day
in vehicle crashes, 99.9% of which never make national news, yet let a
small airplane slide off a runway and ding a wing, and it's "DETAILS AT
11" and splashed across the front page the next morning...

denny