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Old May 11th 05, 08:19 PM
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Andrew Gideon wrote:
When DC is closed off to all vehicular traffic, I'll believe that someone is
serious about security and I'll accept what's being done to GA there.
Absent that, this is a joke and we're the butt of that joke.

- Andrew


And while we are at it, howe about securing the borders? If you can't
secure your borders you have no country.

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Old May 11th 05, 08:20 PM
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Haven't you ever made a mistake?

Why would you, and the others on this board, immediately jump on the
governments bandwagon?

1) You don't know if these guys are morons or not.
2) There are probably less than 1,000,000 active pilots in this
country - that's a tiny proportion of the general population.
3) The government is going to do away with us, based on number 2, just
because we are a tiny minority, AOPA or not.





On Wed, 11 May 2005 17:49:00 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

AOPA or the like should help make examples of these pilots, in a big
public way. "We won't tolerate ignorance among our own and suggest
immediate revocation of their flying privileges".


At first blush upon reading this I thought "How ridiculous!"

However, the more I consider it, the more I think John is onto something
here. If we, the pilot community, don't do something to make it apparent
that these morons who keep busting the TFRs are NOT representative of the
rest of us, nor do they reflect the predominant attitude of most pilots, nor
do they reflect a general lack of intelligence shared by other pilots, I
fear that the federal government is simply going to make the whole danged
East Coast a no-fly zone.


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Old May 11th 05, 08:22 PM
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On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:03:57 +0100, "S." wrote
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Newsreel footage of EVERYONE in D.C. scattering in all directions has just
been shown on Channel 4 news (U.K.) ; it looked like a badly made disaster
movie. A police officer shouted "GET OUT, NOW !" to the floor of the House.
Unseemly and totally lacking in composure or dignity.

If this is what an off-track Cessna can do the the worlds most
technologically powerful and sophisticated nation, I have to ask "Have the
terrorists already won ?".


In light of the British people continuing to man their shops and posts
during the nightly bomb raids by the Nazis during the Battle of
Britain, these pusillanimous Americans scattering in panic must appear
particularly pathetic.


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Old May 11th 05, 08:24 PM
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S. wrote:

Newsreel footage of EVERYONE in D.C. scattering in all directions has just
been shown on Channel 4 news (U.K.) ; it looked like a badly made disaster
movie. A police officer shouted "GET OUT, NOW !" to the floor of the House.
Unseemly and totally lacking in composure or dignity.

If this is what an off-track Cessna can do the the worlds most
technologically powerful and sophisticated nation, I have to ask "Have the
terrorists already won ?".

Exactly! All that going on in Washington while our borders remain Wide-ass
open for millions of illegals to come streaming in every week. The activity in
Washington is tantamount to locking the barn after the horses have escaped.

What do you expect from a bunch of old farts more concerned with re-election
and "offending" illegal alien advocate groups than protecting the taxpaying
citizenry or upholding the United States Constitution.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.



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Old May 11th 05, 08:25 PM
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:03:57 +0100, "S."

wrote
in ::

Newsreel footage of EVERYONE in D.C. scattering in all directions

has just
been shown on Channel 4 news (U.K.) ; it looked like a badly made

disaster
movie. A police officer shouted "GET OUT, NOW !" to the floor of the

House.
Unseemly and totally lacking in composure or dignity.

If this is what an off-track Cessna can do the the worlds most
technologically powerful and sophisticated nation, I have to ask

"Have the
terrorists already won ?".


In light of the British people continuing to man their shops and

posts
during the nightly bomb raids by the Nazis during the Battle of
Britain, these pusillanimous Americans scattering in panic must

appear
particularly pathetic.


I only hope their overeaction make geting rid of GA seem silly.

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Old May 11th 05, 08:27 PM
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WOW!
One would have to be pretty stupid to fly over DC in todays world. I can
understand the "No Fly Zone" policy, but I can't understand why all the cops
in the area have to act like Soviet paratroopers are descending around
Washington Monument.
When onboard the USS Iwo Jima we almost had to shoot down a small GA
plane in the Med. He invaded our airspace, after the second warning battle
stations were called, all the cool anti aircraft machine guns and missles
came online. The Captain had them try him one last time and he waved his
wings and turned around. I often wonder if he actually realized how close to
dying he was.
So I can agree with most and say the DC police act like a bunch of bent
out of shape Campfire Girls running around screaming , but if a US Warship
has protected airspace..shouldn't the Capital of the US? What excuse could a
pilot give in VFR conditions for being to close to DC? Oh I didn't know what
DC looked like? I agree with the take their license away.
The news channels were saying that it would take the plane 90 seconds to
reach the Capital or White House from the 3 mile radius....bet that 3 mile
becomes 10 miles soon. We can thank this latest idiot as well as the
Governor of Kentucky's pilots!

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

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Old May 11th 05, 08:29 PM
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Good point. I only fly radio control models right now. There has been
some restriction of their use during large international events and
around Washington. The same thing has been pointed out about them, but
it makes no differance.

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Old May 11th 05, 08:45 PM
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Jay Masino wrote:
The latest report on WTOP (news station in DC) was that the aircraft
WAS squawking the correct code, but that there was some sort of
communications problem. I'm glad to see that everyone was so willing
to jump on top of our brother pilots.


Our poor "brother pilots" who can't seem to figure out how to handle a
"communications problem" (aka avoid the friggin white house if their radio
is blown) will be the ones to cause your aircraft to have it's cylinders
filled with sand.


 




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