I just got a National Pilot Alert from AOPA president Craig Fuller that reallly got my attention.  The TSA has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which, if enacted, will apply commercial air carrier security measures to General Aviatiion aircraft weighing more than 12,5000 pounds, regardless of how those aircraft are used.  Thus begins the death knoll of Corporaate Aviation for starters to be followed shortly thereafter by all of General aviation.  Why?  Because once the bureaucratic train starts to rumble out of the station, there's no stopping it.  It will feed on its own publicity and with the current power vested in one party controlling both houses, big, big, bigger government is the future.
  The 110,000 TSA employees will grow to half a million to try to enforce the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which, if enacted, will apply commercial air carrier security measures to General Aviation aircraft weighing more than 12,500 pounds, regardless of how those aircraft are used.  The proposal fails to recognize the inherent differences between private and commercial aviation, and it attempts to impose expensive and unnecessary regulations without justification.
  I, personally have been directly involved in all aspects of the industry; private, corporate and commercial for more than 65 years.  Unless I have been asleep for that time there is no record of any private or corporate aircraft having been a threat to national security.  And, that is exactly the target of the (NPRM) TSA proposes.  In my opinion, it is simply a ploy to grow government and push our nation deeper into the throws of socialism.  I am a proud member of AOPA along with more than 400,000 others.  Perhaps my critical comments will put my name on the "Terror Watch List" that already numbers more than one million. So I have one request and that is the bastards spell my name correctly.

Captain A. L. "IKE" Eisenhauer                                     












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