Can anyone explain what TFR's are supposed to do?

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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What's what point?


Of hijacking an airplane departing Cuba to go to Cuba.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net...

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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What's what point?


Of hijacking an airplane departing Cuba to go to Cuba.

They were hijacking to the US. The original poster got the direction
backwards. Gets here faster than stealing boats.

That was exactly my point. If some terrorist wants to hijack a flight from
Cuba to deliver some terrorist act to Miami, there isn't much the FAA is
going to be able to do about it.

Or, to use a more realistic example, if some terrorist decides to hijack a
plane out of Toronto and fly it into Niagra Falls, it's just plain out of
the FAA and TSA's hands. And their new "security measures" will provide
absolutely no assistance.



"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in
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Judah wrote:

Nonetheless, it still demonstrates the point...

Not hardly! Last time I looked, neither the TSA nor the FAA had any say
at all in what goes on with Cuban aircraft.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having
too much could prove embarassing, but having too little is always
fatal.

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:14:30 -0700, "C J Campbell"
wrote:


"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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| "Corky Scott" wrote in message
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| I haven't figured out why TFR's exist. How are they supposed to
| protect the President and/or whatever else?
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| That's the general principle.
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| Does the Secret Service and the FAA really think that just having a
| "no flight activity" within an imaginary circle sixty miles across
| will really stop a determined assailant?
|
| The FAA ain't running the circus. I suspect that the Secret Service
| feels that by keeping all (or at least) most friendly traffic out of the
| area, it makes it easier to spot the unfriendlies.
|

The trouble with that theory is, what can the Secret Service do about it?
They *might* shove the President under a desk or something. But does anyone
seriously believe that the Secret Service (or anyone else) would risk the
political fallout from shooting down an innocent airplane?

Actually, the presence of a TFR makes it quite "justifiable" to the
uneducated. Lacking a TFR, the airplane could be construed as
"innocent".


Jake Brodsky,
PP ASEL IA, Cessna Cardinal N30946, Based @ FME
Amateur Radio Station AB3A