GA security question

Newps wrote:

Paul Missman wrote:

Frode,

At controlled airports in the US, the FBO desk clerk is going to find
out who you are before you are allowed onto the ramp.

Not at any airport I'm aware of. How would they do that?

Haven't flown into many since 9/11, have you? It really doesn't depend on
whether the airport is controlled or not; it depends on whether or not there's
commercial traffic. Try Cherokee Aviation at TYS, for example. The doors to the
ramp won't open from the inside unless the clerk allows it. SHD has a similar
arrangement, and they're not controlled.

Some airports had similar security before 9/11. In 1995, I stopped at a place in
Georgia (I think it was Albany) that had a key code pad on the ramp door.
Transients had to get an official to let them out. At Roanoke, the desk clerk
had to let you out for many years before 9/11.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.

: Transients had to get an official to let them out. At Roanoke, the desk clerk
: had to let you out for many years before 9/11.

Roanoke really likes to pretend that they're a real airport.

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