Here's an idea for ya, lets make all airplanes 12,500# and above taxi over to the terminal and have our passengers load up there. Now the question, what about at airports without a terminal? Lets, uh... There are so many variables in GA that make this proposal so difficult to comply with even if it was justified.

Some FBO's that have aircraft based there are open 24 hours a day and control door access if you yell out your (or any for that matter) tail number. Some FBO's have no door control at all and are around every now and then. In my case, we have our own hangar, towing rig... we do it all ourselves. Are we going to be required to have someone around for 24 hours a day monitoring our security sensitive area?

There is already an airport security program in place that secures our airport. We already lock our hangar doors, lock our airplane... what other security do we need to implement? If we started screening our passengers, limiting water and toothpaste and lotion... we would still not prevent anyone from busting the lock off our hangar door, breaking into our airplane and going for a joyride.

Any amount of security less than someone being in our hangar 24 hours a day would not prevent this from happening. Could you imagine the cost of this, the screening process, paying for audits, getting FAA background checks, getting fined for potential noncompliance? The list goes on, and on, and on.

 

If this means ALL aircraft over 12,500 - does that mean I can't carry my survival knife, canteen of water, and pencil flares in my aircraft too? I mean I'm around 40,000 lbs when I take off. Craziness I tell you!

USMCFLYR

 

It still goes back to the point that 99%+ of all jet owners and anyone that has assets of that value are already taking precautions to protect their investments. Their doors are locked, while the aircraft is locked in a hanger. People know who is moving XXX aircraft, and if it's not someone with the FBO/company, then it will look very suspicious and raise questions. There are many lines of defense to keep common criminals from doing anything. My point as I mentioned before, if someone really wants to, they will accomplish their goal regardless of security measures, the inteligence is where the stopping power is!