Fight The ADIZ!

The Post 9/11 Air Defence Zone around Washington DC was supposed to be a temporary measure to protect the nation’s capitol but the FAA has recently proposed to make it permanent. Further, there are legislators trying to pass laws that would make it a serious crime to violate the ADIZ, with penalties higher than many “real” crimes! Whilst I’m not sure how realistic, there are fears that, if implemented, we’ll see much of the current Class B airspace shut down in this manner and therefore pilots need to make a stand.

To this end, I encourage you to go to AOPA’s Operation ADIZ webpage and leave the FAA a comment. Now, the TSA didn’t care about the comments when implementing the alien flight training rule so I don’t have much hope that the FAA will listen either, but it might be worth a few words.



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I got my private pilot certificate in Feb 2002, and my instrument rating exaclty one year later in 2003. I fly out of Montgomery Field, San Diego, renting Cessna 172s, 182s, and Piper Archers from PlusOneFlyers. I also have high performance and complex endorsements.

Currently, I have approximately 350 hours of PIC time, including 450 landings, and a monster 6.4 hours of actual instrument time. September 2010