GA security question

Frode Berg wrote:
Hi!

This is a question to all you out there flying between commercial fields and
uncontrolled private strips.

In Europe these days, there is some legislation coming reg access to
airports, and security.

Hi Frode, I'm based at the central airport of class C airspace, Raleigh-Durham
International. Access to the ramp from the car-side is by a badge with a
magnetic stripe. I have to enter a PIN number after swiping my badge in the
badge reader. Anyone in my party is presumed to have been cleared by me. To get
my badge, I had to sign a statement to the effect that I am responsible for
anyone I bring onto the ramp.

At similar-sized airports, the security arrangements vary. At any airport with
airline service, there's usually some kind of supervision of the entrance to the
ramp, but that might be just the desk clerk at the FBO, who has to buzz the door
open for you, or it might be just that the furniture is arranged so that you
have to pass by the desk on the way to the door.

At Raleigh-Durham, if you come in through the FBO, and the desk clerk doesn't
know you, and you're not wearing an airport badge, the desk clerk will ask who
you are and why you need to access the ramp.

Anyone arriving from the air-side is not checked in any way.

Dave