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"ks_av8r" news:DPVL8.18015$W23.1812003009@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com... > Yeah, but (I hate it when they start like this too!) the fear of "bone > headed knee-jerk reactions" is based somewhat on the FAA s past track > records. Why does Bob Hoover come to mind as my fingers start to get blue? > :-) > > Slightly off topic, but on my two last cross country flights (over 225nm), > after filing the IFR flight plan, getting the weather and being the > all-around good flier, I asked the briefer "are there any Nuclear Power > Plants in the proximity of that routing?" Considering, that would have been a rather poor choice of words. Why not just ask about any TFRs? -- Roger (K8RI EN73) WWW.RogerHalstead.com N833R, Worlds Oldest Debonair? S#CD-2 > Wow, be ready for a variety of > answers to that question. Maybe by now the answers are getting more > uniform, but I sure caught some of them off guard. > > > "Jim Fisher" > news:WlSL8.45886$_p6.6677397@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com... > > > > > "So what?" you ask? Well, it just seems to me that this news gives us > some > > idea of why there was (and still is) a major concern by our government for > > small planes being used as terrorist weapons. It explains why the entire > GA > > fleet was grounded. It explains the official warnings weve all had to > > endure. It explains the stadium TFRs and crop duster fears. > > > > Justified fears? I dunno. Weve all talked about this until we were blue > > in the fingers. But I find some strange comfort knowing that our > government > > appears to have been acting on substantiated concerns in the months after > > 9/11 instead of the bone headed knee-jerk reactions so many of us have > > claimed in the groups here. > > > > -- > > Jim Fisher > > Cherokee 180 > > www.EAAChapter615.org > > > > > > > > |
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