TSA Security Rule, applies to who, and who's taken it?

"Robert M. Gary" writes:

It sounds like you are giving instruction illegally. You must have a
valid TSA certificate to give flight instruction now. You need to go to
http://www.aopa.org/tsa_rule/ and learn how to do it. Its easy and
quick. I don't think there is any failure possible. I probably failed
mine but it "passed" me and issued the certificate.

I had a quick discussion about that with Phil Boyer after the recent
AOPA Town Meeting in northern Virginia a couple of weeks ago. He says
that the reading he got from TSA is that (a) they don't have any mechanism
in place to find out who has taken the test (do'h!) and (b) they're more
interested in getting the "security awareness" of the CFI community raised
than they are with punitive enforcement.

I'll agree that the "training" is a good example of how *not* to design
training material, but if it does make the aviation community *think*
about security issues then it's achieved at least part of its intended
function.

Joe Morris

I took it a couple of weeks ago. Took me about 20 minutes. basically a
very short outline of how not to be terminally stupid regarding basic
security issues, then a series of about a dozen 'scenarios' you have to
evaluate, followed by a selection of options you can perform as a CFI;
like:

You are a CFI at your local airport. You see a man, muttering to
himself in Arabic, carrying an AK-47, and struggling to cut the prop
lock off a Cessna 182 that belongs to your brother-in-law. Next to him
is a large crate bearing the label 'fragile - this side up -
thermonuclear warhead enclosed - do not drop'.

Do you:

A - Notify your superior that there's a big ugly box littering the
ramp.
B - Do nothing, and go to the Applebees next to the airport; happy hour
ends in 30 minutes.
C - Hand him your card, and tell him you are available to do a BFR for
him for $30 an hour.


It's pretty straightforward, and damn near useless.

Cheers,

Cap

scupper79 wrote:
my subject poses my question?

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