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There is little or no need for GA security.
At GA airports you pretty much know everyone around you, hence any stranger would stick out like a sore thumb.
And the fellow in Tampa proved you can't do a whole lot of damage with a light aircraft anyway.
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What about if that guy crashed into a bus filled with elementery school kids? or a park?
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And what about the thousands of SUVs, or rental trucks or motorhomes that could do the EXACT same thing? Should we search every person who wants to drive? Maybe have a TSA agent in eavh driveway/garage/parking lot to search every driver before they get behind the wheel?
On a side note, you'd have to be a damned skilled pilot to hit a moving school bus.
The point is, yes there is a risk with GA – everything has a risk – but there are other greater risks out there that no one is addressing or even acknowledging yet rules and restrictions are unproportionately being lumped on GA just because people are scared of those "flying machines."
The amout of money, preparation and time involved with pulling off even a basic kamikazi attack with a light GA airplane is far more costly than teaching some 16-year old to drive a car, shoot a rifle from a tower, strap a bang-stick to his @$$ or any of the other countless bad things someone could do. But do we see any security at train depots? Shipping ports? Bus services? No.
Another point, here, cars can be loaded down with stuff until they only move a few MPH whereas an aircraft has a FINITE amount of weight it can carry before it simply will not fly.
For example my Hyundai Accent (a VERY small, four-door compact) has a GVW of 3,200lbs. I can stuff that thing full of bad things and leave just enough room for me to drive and it'll still move. Now, our PA-23 Apache has a GW of 3,800 lbs. Sure I can over load it but at some point it won't fly. Now look at the weights there and think about it for a minute. A COMPACT car weighs almost as much as a light twin GA aircraft. Yet, no one, is concerned about the millions of vehicles driving around out on the roads. yet almost everyone is scared of and wants to limit GA to the point it goes exctinct.
Where is the proportionate risk assesment in this picture? It doesn't exist.
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There is little or no need for GA security.
At GA airports you pretty much know everyone around you, hence any stranger would stick out like a sore thumb.
And the fellow in Tampa proved you can't do a whole lot of damage with a light aircraft anyway.
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What about if that guy crashed into a bus filled with elementery school kids? or a park?
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And what about the thousands of SUVs, or rental trucks or motorhomes that could do the EXACT same thing? Should we search every person who wants to drive? Maybe have a TSA agent in eavh driveway/garage/parking lot to search every driver before they get behind the wheel?
On a side note, you'd have to be a damned skilled pilot to hit a moving school bus.
The point is, yes there is a risk with GA – everything has a risk – but there are other greater risks out there that no one is addressing or even acknowledging yet rules and restrictions are unproportionately being lumped on GA just because people are scared of those "flying machines."
The amout of money, preparation and time involved with pulling off even a basic kamikazi attack with a light GA airplane is far more costly than teaching some 16-year old to drive a car, shoot a rifle from a tower, strap a bang-stick to his @$$ or any of the other countless bad things someone could do. But do we see any security at train depots? Shipping ports? Bus services? No.
Another point, here, cars can be loaded down with stuff until they only move a few MPH whereas an aircraft has a FINITE amount of weight it can carry before it simply will not fly.
For example my Hyundai Accent (a VERY small, four-door compact) has a GVW of 3,200lbs. I can stuff that thing full of bad things and leave just enough room for me to drive and it'll still move. Now, our PA-23 Apache has a GW of 3,800 lbs. Sure I can over load it but at some point it won't fly. Now look at the weights there and think about it for a minute. A COMPACT car weighs almost as much as a light twin GA aircraft. Yet, no one, is concerned about the millions of vehicles driving around out on the roads. yet almost everyone is scared of and wants to limit GA to the point it goes exctinct.
Where is the proportionate risk assesment in this picture? It doesn't exist.
