DCA to reopen to GA

WASHINGTON - Private planes will be allowed to take off and land at Reagan

Great news!
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

WASHINGTON - Private planes will be allowed to take off and land at Reagan

Great news!

Uh, not so fast. 45 a day (ok, that's a start), security clearances
first (which probably includes fingerprinting like a common criminal - I
understand that other airports in the area already do this), and an
armed officer being on board the aircraft. Presumably this is an
appropriately vetted officer. Where are they going to get these
officers? Land at Gaithersberg first? Have them flown out to the
originating airport?

This sounds like just enough to open the airport to corporate jets,
which is just enough to shut enough people up so that it stops there.
Maybe I'm just too cynical from living in the Northeast, and I hope it
goes well and leads to our government granting us more privileges in our
nation's captiol, but I'm not holding my breath.

Jose
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first (which probably includes fingerprinting like a common criminal - I
understand that other airports in the area already do this),

Jose

Not only common criminals are fingerprinted.

I have been fingerprinted voluntarily numerous times.. A few times for
the purpose of obtaining and renewing my state's concealed handgun
license (which by the way, is NOT banned in small planes.. only the
airliners..).

Dave

Jose wrote:

...., and an
armed officer being on board the aircraft. Presumably this is an
appropriately vetted officer. Where are they going to get these
officers?

Well, if your State has such a thing, apply for an honorary deputy sheriff's
position and take the required training.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.

I don't see how it's such "Great News". With a requirement to have a
law enforcement officer on board, it does nothing for those of us with
small planes. I have to have a cop sitting in my Skyhawk to land
there? Where do I get one? Where do I put him if I have my wife and
baggage with me?

It's just more silly, unnecessary bull****.

wrote:

I don't see how it's such "Great News". With a requirement to have a
law enforcement officer on board, it does nothing for those of us with
small planes. I have to have a cop sitting in my Skyhawk to land
there? Where do I get one? Where do I put him if I have my wife and
baggage with me?

It's just more silly, unnecessary bull****.


How hard is it to get deputized? :-)

Matt

Rosspilot wrote:

Where do I put him if I have my wife and baggage with me?

On the wing.

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Peter

I don't see how it's such "Great News". With a requirement to have a
law enforcement officer on board, it does nothing for those of us with
small planes.

It's a step in the right direction, plain and simple.

Nothing more, nothing less.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

No, I disagree. It is as someone else mentioned, just enough of a step
to shut up the people who actually matter to the gov't. The rest of us,
unfortunately, only get heard through AOPA, and they obviously don't
have enough clout to get us our rightful access to the DC-3 airports...
honestly, I could care less about flying into DCA... the other airports
that have been shutdown are far more GA friendly. At least there is a
way to get in to them, but it requires jumping through way too many
hoops for the occasional transient pilot.

--
jr

Guy Elden Jr wrote:
No, I disagree. It is as someone else mentioned, just enough of a step
to shut up the people who actually matter to the gov't. The rest of us,
unfortunately, only get heard through AOPA, and they obviously don't
have enough clout to get us our rightful access to the DC-3 airports...

Anybody can get access to the DC-3 airports. You just have to go
through the vetting process. That was opened up a few months ago.
Of course, the process is annoying to get vetted and mildly annoying
(on a busy day when both the Leesburg FSS and Potomac approach have
long call queues0.