Originally Posted by
Teacher49
"jumping at shadows"
"what's the big deal?"
"paranoid and delusional behavior."
"paranoid reality-deniers"
"insane and paranoid policies"
"Besides, who the hell is the US to mandate who sits in the cockpit of a foreign registered aircraft anyway?"
Well, to begin with...US airspace is sovereign and one of the few legitimate functions of government is to protect it's citizens, including controlling what goes on in it's airspace. Efforts to secure the flight deck of passenger aircraft transiting US airspace is not colonialism run a muck, it is the keystone to insuring that hijackers don't get access to the flight deck.
With all the inane government policies we have to put up with, how can you possibly have a problem with such a rational restriction?
*Teacher49 did not make all those comments, I merely replied to his post.