LancairTalk

Today it appears that a significant terrorist plot was foiled by authorities in the UK. However the blow-back of the more sophisticated techniques pursued by the authorities is resulting in 90 minute security lines across the country (and presumably Europe also). Combine that with the inability to bring laptops, carry-on luggage and more on many flights and commercial aviation has overnight turned into even more of a nightmare than it was before. A 90 minute security line puts me 350+ miles into a trip in my Columbia- for a trip to Oakland I can probably now easily beat the equivalent commercial trip (it was only a tie before) and puts me into the running for just about any trip that I can do non-stop (Los Angeles, Vegas, Palm Springs, Denver, Phoenix, etc.)

We will see how this turns out over the coming weeks- hopefully the authorities will come up with less intrusive approaches to foil these new terrorist techniques. In the meantime those of us in the GA community need to continue to be vigilant to make sure that we arent leaving any openings for terrorists and the associated restrictions that would follow. So far the tight GA community has done an excellent job preventing these threats but we need to not let our guard down.

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