Pilots nationwide are more than alarmed by CBS Evening News
“Eye on America” Correspondent Bob Orr’s report
last week, which described residential airpark communities and
General Aviation airports as “an open invitation for
terrorists.” In fact, according to Jan Hoynacki, executive
director of the United States Pilots Association (USPA), aviation
enthusiasts across America are themselves feeling terrorized by
fear-driven security woes.
“We feel like General Aviation is under attack by a movement
in this country to eliminate ‘little’ airplanes,”
Hoynacki alleged. And in context of the barrage of regulatory
restrictions, codicils and conventions which have been imposed upon
and proposed for General Aviation since 9-11, coupled wi