Sun, Apr 11, 2004
You're Not Going To Like This.....
ANN has learned that a
small number (so far) of our elected officials are looking at
additional security measures that may affect pilots all over the
US. New security initiatives are being designed to "register,
finger-print and conduct background checks" on a number of persons
performing as "Primary Transportation Personnel."
Mind you, for the moment, all this is rumor... but rumors we've
gotten from uncommonly good sources (who have been unerringly
accurate, in the past) and who have promised more detail as soon as
it develops. The basis for the current concern is an extensive
registration program that would involve pilots, truckers driving
rigs of a certain weight and "criticality", as well as captains of
watercraft using major/sensitive ports of call.
If approved, all such personnel would be subject to criminal
background checks, fingerprinting and registered -- a process that
our sources say will have to be paid for by those subjected
to the process... in other words... YOU.
While PTP's of watercraft and groundcraft will be qualified
based on the size/weight or use of their vehicles, we understand
that no such distinction will be made for aircraft and that every
pilot of any aircraft is considered fair game. The proposal is
being floated in certain areas of Congress where it may or may not
be taken seriously if it gains some traction from more powerful
elected officials.
We'll keep you apprised as soon as we get more information, but
since we believe that "forewarned, is forearmed," it seemed
appropriate to pass this along. We might suggest that you start
writing your own elected officials to let them know that such
indiscriminate and burdensome controls are both unwarranted,
intensely restrictive, and unwelcome by a population that has
demonstrated NO need for such attention.
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