I am writing this post to ask you to consider joining a Congressional letter writing campaign spearheaded by the NBAA.  The letter writing campaign is about proposed Transportation Security Administration rulemaking that would drive another nail in the coffin of general aviation.  Specifically, by the TSA is proposing rules that would force general aviation to comply with sweeping security measures designed specifically for the nation’s commercial airlines.  These rules would apply to operations for airplanes as small as 12,500 pounds, and are part of a trend in government anti-terrorism rulemaking that could trickle down to other categories of general aviation.

To quote Mac McLellan in a recent Flying e-newsletter, “It is clear that the present administration in Washington, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in 70 years, doesn’t care one wit about the future of business aviation. Over the past several weeks it has lumped all private airplanes used for business into a category of spending that is so wasteful it cannot be tolerated. And now it continues to press ahead with its Large Airplane Security Program (LASP) that piles more cost onto business flying and robs those airplanes of a huge chunk of their usefulness…rules that may make some sense for public transportation using aircraft that weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds are absurd for the typical business airplane that its owners use to visit the thousands of airports around the country that are not served by any airline.”

You can join this letter writing in just a minute or two by following the link http://www.nbaa.org/advocacy/contact/ to NBAA’s website.  There, upon entering your name and address, you can review and personalize a letter to your congressperson that NBAA will forward to the right person for you.  It took me less than one minute to send this letter and support the NBAA.