  These puddle jumpers will be next on the list. Every landing strip will need a TSA officer.
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Aviation security plans make waves in Kansas – Kansas City Star — Ha, get on the watch list and you won’t be able to get on your own damned plane! This is just too funny for words. Soon your own car will be subject to the TSA goon squad.
The federal government wants to slap new security rules on private jets, prompting an outcry from Kansas lawmakers and the general-aviation industry. The rules, proposed by the Transportation Security Administration, would apply post-9/11 security measures to larger private planes used by the nation’s corporate elite.
Affected would be dozens of planes used by some of Kansas City’s biggest employers. Among other things, the rules would ban certain carry-on items and require aircraft operators to match passengers to terrorist watch lists.
Critics say the hassle could very well take the comfort and expediency out of flying in a corporate jet and hurt the Kansas aircraft industry.
“Time value is the single most crucial piece that we bring to the corporate business world,” said Ed Chevrestt, vice president and general manager for Executive Beechcraft Inc., which manages aircraft at Wheeler Downtown Airport.
“If you take that out of the mix, why would you want to own an airplane?”
But the TSA contends that smaller planes pose a real security threat.
[this means;} A ban on the same carry-on items now prohibited on commercial airlines. This could include golf clubs, baseball bats, tools longer than 7 inches and firearms. [ And no liquids more than 100 ml].
This will get the attention of Obama’s big money contributors and be killed fast. But it does tell you something that these a-holes even try to get something like this implemented.
“But it does tell you something that these a-holes even try to get something like this implemented.”
Yeah! It tells me it’s a Freudian Slip. And they’re right. The people who fly these corporate jets around (and not Piper Cubs!), helped to cause this economic mess. In effect, they are terrorists. And they fly to and fro arranging what ways they can further mess up the economy, in order to make themselves richer. Like the Auto executives who brought down their own companies, in order to get free of their mounting retirement fund debt. And yet they still got the gall to fly to DC in style, to ask for a bail out of their top salaried. Because you know they ain’t going to spread the bailout wealth down to the laid off rank and file. So they took a few corporate jets to DC to collect their loot.
But terrorists? Well they had to have planned their part in this mess. Sending jobs to Mexico, gaming the market toward SUVs and family Vans. Who you think lobbied for that Tax credit for businessmen buying gas guzzling MiniVans, rather than regular new cars, a few years back? The Auto executives. And when the gas prices shot up, thanks to market speculation, by these insiders. The public was stuck with vehicles that got lousy gas mileage, at $4 a gallon. And when the SUV and MiniVan market predictably shrank to nil. The automakers refused to retool back to the economy models. In fact the ones they were turning out a decade ago, were mostly crap! And the emissions standards applied to them tougher than they did to the gas guzzlers. All part of the market gaming. So now, the automaker would rather fail, than make more energy efficient cars again. Because they’ve tasted the profits of making expensive gas guzzlers. And if they don’t sell, so what, the taxpayers will bail them out anyway.
These corporate tycoons seem like economic terrorists to me. Hell yeah, confiscate their cushy sky rides.
Ya, this will save us all.
The biggest threat to this country is the fear generated by the TSA.
I saw this coming a mile away. Democrats hate private aviation with a passion. I guess they associate it with rich people (despite the fact that most private pilots are middle class, who just rent a plane every now and then). I was wondering how long it would after the government change over that they would go after private aviation. Though I would have guessed it would have taken a few months.
Don’t worry. The libs in congress won’t allow the erosion of personal rights…
We should tax private jet flights for their carbon emissions. Make the tax high enough so the planes can’t take off with just a few passengers. That should at least make those Hollywood environmentalists shut up for awhile.
First please note I do NOT think we need more security for flights of any kind. I am upset by the ultrasonic imaging sensors and the security now…which is more of a nascence than true security.
I took a flying lesson and was able to go back to my car and get my jacket, come back with no security check and take the controls of a plane over downtown of the capital of my state…but I couldn’t take a lighter on a commercial plane?
With freedom comes a chance of someone using those freedoms incorrectly and for physical harm. I’d rather have freedom and chance a whack job killing me than live in an east Germany situation, “Safe.” Give me liberty…
The horse left the building in 2001.
A study was quickly convened.
Researchers voted themselves a $235,000/year salary each.
Careful consideration was given to all factors.
A 3,569,447 page report was compiled.
No one person read all of the pages.
A hold was put on the project awaiting the development of SSD drives.
No suspension of researcher’s salaries was instigated.
The project was resumed in mid 2008.
A preliminary specification was “leaked” to Halliburton.
A no-bid contract was signed secretly in early January, 2009 in the office of the vice president.
Operation Barn Door was now active.
Today the news started to get out.
General aviation (and now radio controlled airplanes) are the current whipping boys of petty jealousy.
How many of our freedoms have we already given up in the name of supposed security? Doesn’t that mean that the terrorists already won?
Do I have to move to Canada to continue flying my radio controlled airplanes? What happened to the land of freedom?
Chris