How about when you're running late on short turn, and out of nowhere a TSA "Boarding Team" shows up to inspect your plane, just as the PAX start down the jetbridge....

so while conversing with the TSA "Boarding Team" supervisor (to get his name and such for when you get called about the late departure) you determine that other than general "this is a window, that is a seat, this is a fire bottle, that is a magazine" type of training that they have absolutely no specific training on the type of aircraft you are operating. This peeks your interest, so you follow up with a question if they know how many and what type of fire bottles are in the pax cabin? to which he replies, well... no. So you then ask, well then how would you know if something is or isn't out of place, belongs or doesn't belong... to which he replies... with a blank stare.

At that point you ask him to have his people step asside, so that the passengers may board without further delay.

Later in the month the CP gives you a stern talking to about cooperating with TSA agents... while winking and smiling the entire time.


Why are these people having "Boarding Teams" in the first place? Last year they got caught climbing on the outside aircraft sensors as if they were a ladder tryign to simulate somebody breaking into the plane... I wasn't aware that being a TSA agent was a license to break the law as a "test." No they are violating the US constitution with illegal invassive pat downs. I am glad we have been given the pass from this, but it shouldn't be going on in the first place.

From the letters to the editor of the local paper in Arizona today....

It probably wouldn't hurt pilots to be screened, but I can't imagine it would be necessary to screen them in the same way as regular air passengers.

At Toronto Intl in Canada, they have a specific area for flight crew to be screened. I am sure the procedures are different (no full body scanners), but I still don't consider it a bad idea.

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Well put. That is a very good summation.

Thanks Chuck, cheers to 'ya!

See, civility CAN exist here at APC!

Screening pilots, any pilot in CASS is an ABSOLUTE waste of time IF there is ANY person that bypasses screening, including FAM's, FFDO's and LEO's.

Any pilot with half a brain can and could get almost anything into the secure air-side today.

We will never stop the Timothy McVeigh's.

We are presently screened as a public display to pacify the traveling masses, nothing more.

This makes as much sense as my saying you shouldn't be allowed to say it. Just dumb. Talk about not having enough to do in your life but to come up with this kind of bunk.

Sorry that you can't make sense of a simple statement. Anyway,
what does that say about you and how much time you have on your hands by responding to this "bunk"? Kind of "dumb"?

You can be almost nude and still get searched lol!
Wheelchair-bound woman in underwear gets hour-long security search - Telegraph



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