Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

Let us hear from you, folks!Aero-News Quote Of The Day (05.13.05)

Aero-News Quote of the Day

"I am frustrated as hell. How, with four million emails last year about TFRs, with two education campaigns that still exist on our website, with partnering with TSA for things, with editorials, with constant pressure -- how can pilots within a shadow of the DC area ignore all that and fly into the heart of the ADIZ?"

Source: AOPA President Phil Boyer, understandably venting after a Cessna 150K blew through the Washington ADIZ Wednesday, coming within three miles of the White House. The pilots told federal investigators they were lost. On board, they had no GPS and were not talking to anyone on the radio. As a result of the incursion, efforts to narrow the ADIZ and reopen Reagan National Airport to business aviation traffic may have been set back by months.

FMI: www.aopa.org