TSA suspends \"pilot insecurity rule\"
From the AOPA website:
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Rights of general aviation pilots protected
May 6 — The pilot insecurity rule has lost its bite — at least for now. The Transportation Security Administration has suspended enforcement of the rule that allowed it to revoke a pilot's certificate for alleged security risks.
AOPA had opposed the rule from the day it was imposed because of an onerous provision that only allowed a pilot to appeal a revocation to TSA — the very agency that had ordered the revocation in the first place! Thanks to an intense lobbying effort by AOPA on Capitol Hill, Congress ordered TSA to come up with a new appeal process. Now the agency has said it will not enforce the rule against U.S. citizens or legal resident aliens until the new process is in place.
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Full AOPA article here.
From the AOPA website:
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Rights of general aviation pilots protected
May 6 — The pilot insecurity rule has lost its bite — at least for now. The Transportation Security Administration has suspended enforcement of the rule that allowed it to revoke a pilot's certificate for alleged security risks.
AOPA had opposed the rule from the day it was imposed because of an onerous provision that only allowed a pilot to appeal a revocation to TSA — the very agency that had ordered the revocation in the first place! Thanks to an intense lobbying effort by AOPA on Capitol Hill, Congress ordered TSA to come up with a new appeal process. Now the agency has said it will not enforce the rule against U.S. citizens or legal resident aliens until the new process is in place.
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Full AOPA article here.
