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Touchdown! Greaser!
TSA is proposing to make THOUSANDS of additional aircraft operators (and airport operators) implement security programs. From less than a thousand now to well over 10,000 - a 10-fold increase.
How, you might ask, will this affect small GA? Through the airport programs. If you think that an airport is going to implement (and pay for) a full security screening station just for a handful of >65,000 lb jets a week or month, you're dreaming. They'll require small GA operators to use it, too (for a fee, of course).
Tightening the noose around general aviation. ATA must be very happy. And guaranteeing TSA more work.
http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/nprm_lasp.pdf
How, you might ask, will this affect small GA? Through the airport programs. If you think that an airport is going to implement (and pay for) a full security screening station just for a handful of >65,000 lb jets a week or month, you're dreaming. They'll require small GA operators to use it, too (for a fee, of course).
Based on industry data, TSA anticipates that this proposed rule would require approximately 10,000 aircraft operators and 315 airport operators, most of whom are not currently required to do so, to implement security programs.
Tightening the noose around general aviation. ATA must be very happy. And guaranteeing TSA more work.
http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/nprm_lasp.pdf