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Posts tagged as "TSA"
Airport on Lockdown
Airport boards are often filled with people whom don’t fly. Worse, those same people don’t have any kind of financial stake in the success of the airport or the businesses. They may be volunteers or they may be paid some. Either way, it is the rare airport board member that will question the FAA, the ...
Terri Sipantzi, Precision Windsports, Inc (5/31/11)
Trikes have been getting a lot of press recently. Unfortunately, all of it is the worst kind of attention. With trike pilots arguably being the smallest community (OK, elite group) of pilots out there, it becomes even more important that trike pilots be good ambassadors for the sport. Terri Sipantzi joins us to talk about that and more. For example the TSA is becoming a lot more interested in who trike CFI's are training. Terri talks about how to stay straight with the TSA.
Unions Can Bargain on Behalf of Airport Security
OK, what's worse than government agents conducting unconstitutional searches on the flying public? It's unionized government agents violating our fourth amendment rights.
Angry Mica to Press for Private Airport Screening Option
This is another story about the TSA and its arrogance. In this case the TSA is doing something that goes against the original intent of the lawmakers that created the agency. If the TSA won't listen to them, what hope do we have?
Of Airplanes, Fences, and National Security
Although I’ve written about aviation for over 20 years now, I rarely write about it on The Atlantic’s site because Jim Fallows already does such an excellent job of covering the topic here. But I do want to add a few words to what Jim’s already said (all of which I wholeheartedly agree with) in ...
Do We Need a Department of Homeland Security or a TSA?
The new Republican House of Representatives took office amidst much fanfare about the US Constitution and respecting Constitutional limits on government. I have suggested that if they are really serious about it, they will start by abolishing the Transportation Security Administration. Not much has changed in the last few weeks. Indeed, we can do without ...
Is GA The Next Big Target For New ‘Security Theater’ Efforts?
Think the John and Martha King arrest and detention cannot happen to you? Think again. The Customs and Border Patrol Agency has deemed you to be a national security threat and is watching you every time you fly, simply because you are a pilot. The CBP has established an “Air and Marine Operations Center’ (much ...
US Officials Say Airport Scanners ‘Erode Rights’
Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Thursday said the body scans and enhanced security pat-downs at US airports are eating away at Americans’ freedoms and called the agency that conducts them a “basketcase.” “The TSA is a basketcase, collectively,” Nader said at the first US conference on controversial new security measures that are being rolled ...
Homeland Security Hasn’t Made Us Safer
Hardly anyone has seriously scrutinized either the priorities or the spending patterns of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its junior partner, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), since their hurried creation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Sure, they get criticized plenty. But year in, year out, they continue to grow faster ...
Jim Sweeney, SweeneyCorp
A big part of starting flight training now is making sure that your potential student isn't a potential terrorist. At least that is the way the TSA looks at things. Jim Sweeney talks about the requirements out there for CFI's to make sure that their students are US citizens and -if not- what kinds of hoops have to be jumped through before beginning training. The AOPA has a guide and a checklist that are very helpful for flight instructors.