X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:00:33 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c4) with ESMTP id 760263 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:27:54 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.127.198.35; envelope-from=gary.chris@comcast.net Received: from [67.191.48.32] (c-67-191-48-32.hsd1.fl.comcast.net[67.191.48.32]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005101013265801300jrgide>; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:27:09 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <434A6C1B.6010405@comcast.net> X-Original-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:26:51 -0400 From: gary hall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair List Subject: Protest permanent implementation of the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone. Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090901060703030805030209" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090901060703030805030209 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Protest permanent implementation of the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone. Protest now or see it near an airport near you in the future. This alert went out to all 406,000 AOPA members on Oct. 5 and by Saturday afternoon more than 1,200 fresh protests had been registered. The flurry pushed the total number of comments registered on the controversial Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to a little more than 2,000. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 2. AOPA President Phil Boyer said the concern is two-fold. 1. He said the ADIZ is an exaggerated response to the minimal threat posed by light aircraft. He claims the capital has all the protection it needs from the 15-nm flight restricted zone (FRZ) around Washington. The 3,000-square-mile ADIZ causes operational and economic disruption, not to mention dramatically increasing a pilot's chances of being shot down. 2. But such an action paves the way for costly, confusing flight restrictions within the footprint of every Class B airspace around the country." AOPA contends that other cities are considering asking for similar "protection" and this NPRM could be the catalyst. You can go here: http://www.aopa.org/adizalert/ to make it even easier with a step-by-step guide to ensuring your voice is heard in Washington. The URL will give you an idea of what you might want to say in you comments. http://www.aopa.org/adizalert/help.html Warm regards, Gary FXE (Fort Lauderdale Executive) http://www.uslan.com/hinge-kit.html --------------090901060703030805030209 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Protest permanent implementation of the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone.

Protest now or see it near an airport near you in the future.

This alert went out to all 406,000 AOPA members on Oct. 5 and by Saturday afternoon more than 1,200 fresh protests had been registered. The flurry pushed the total number of comments registered on the controversial Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to a little more than 2,000. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 2. AOPA President Phil Boyer said the concern is two-fold.

1.  He said the ADIZ is an exaggerated response to the minimal threat posed by light aircraft. He claims the capital has all the protection it needs from the 15-nm flight restricted zone (FRZ) around Washington. The 3,000-square-mile ADIZ causes operational and economic disruption, not to mention dramatically increasing a pilot's chances of being shot down.

2.  But such an action paves the way for costly, confusing flight restrictions within the footprint of every Class B airspace around the country." AOPA contends that other cities are considering asking for similar "protection" and this NPRM could be the catalyst.

You can go here: http://www.aopa.org/adizalert/ to make it even easier with a step-by-step guide to ensuring your voice is heard in Washington.

The URL will give you an idea of what you might want to say in you comments.
http://www.aopa.org/adizalert/help.html

Warm regards,

Gary

FXE (Fort Lauderdale Executive)
http://www.uslan.com/hinge-kit.html
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