alan
Member
Earlier this week, The Senate passed S. 1657, see www.thomas.gov. Looks like a clean piece of legislation, perhaps unusual of and in itself. The proposal has been sent to the House for action, likely to a committee thereof first.
Now, the House will likely pass the legislation too, and assuming that the President signs it, the thing might then go to TAS for "implimentation", as happened with earlier legislation authorizing the arming of passenger aircraft pilots, via the creation of a strange creature now known as the Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO), whatever the hell one of those might actually turn out to be. Why not simply provide for ARMED PILOTS is a question that remains unanswered.
In any event, TSA, re it's operation of the armed passenger pilot "training program" has been "Slow Walking" the entire thing to death, or if one prefers, Screwing The Pooch in every way imaginable. The Congress seemingly has been either unwilling or unable to check these bureaucratic hijinx, the result of such antics being that precious few pilots have gone through the "training" manadated. Of course, with or without TSA training, the pilots still are in control of the aricraft. The bureaucrats haven't been able to mess with that, at least, not yet.
So re the arming of cargo pilots, what sort of "sand" will TSA throw into the "gears of pilot training", remembering that with or without the blessing of TSA, the pilots still control the aircraft.
Let your House of Representatives "elected things" know that you want the following re the above.
1. Expidited action on the legislation sent over from The Senate, that is S. 1657.
2. The strongest possible checking, by The Congress (House and Senate) of "boobusbureaucradtis" over there at TSA, whose job, one would think, would NOT be messing with an important program, arming, actually REARMING airline pilots, and by the way, do we really need this FFDO in the first place, when it is all to likely that ARMED PILOTS would fill the need?
Now, the House will likely pass the legislation too, and assuming that the President signs it, the thing might then go to TAS for "implimentation", as happened with earlier legislation authorizing the arming of passenger aircraft pilots, via the creation of a strange creature now known as the Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO), whatever the hell one of those might actually turn out to be. Why not simply provide for ARMED PILOTS is a question that remains unanswered.
In any event, TSA, re it's operation of the armed passenger pilot "training program" has been "Slow Walking" the entire thing to death, or if one prefers, Screwing The Pooch in every way imaginable. The Congress seemingly has been either unwilling or unable to check these bureaucratic hijinx, the result of such antics being that precious few pilots have gone through the "training" manadated. Of course, with or without TSA training, the pilots still are in control of the aricraft. The bureaucrats haven't been able to mess with that, at least, not yet.
So re the arming of cargo pilots, what sort of "sand" will TSA throw into the "gears of pilot training", remembering that with or without the blessing of TSA, the pilots still control the aircraft.
Let your House of Representatives "elected things" know that you want the following re the above.
1. Expidited action on the legislation sent over from The Senate, that is S. 1657.
2. The strongest possible checking, by The Congress (House and Senate) of "boobusbureaucradtis" over there at TSA, whose job, one would think, would NOT be messing with an important program, arming, actually REARMING airline pilots, and by the way, do we really need this FFDO in the first place, when it is all to likely that ARMED PILOTS would fill the need?