[QUOTE=skyknight;208766]'Uniformed Crew Member' does not mean crewmember in uniform. Your company ID is all the proof you need to show you are a uniformed crew member. Perhaps if TSA hired people who could read, speak and understand english the same way we are required to, we wouldn't still have this problem. :mad:

Well said sir.
I had to take my shoes off in Dulles the other day.. i mean what is that?? I was in too much of a rush to put up any kind of fight.. where can we find our rights?
At my airport, info leaked that a TSA would try to board our plane and write a vio if succesful.. cant wait till he tries so I can call security- nowhere in the Colgan handbook do we have a copy of their badge or privilages.

You guys/gals can **** and moan, *****, scream, etc, all you want about "uniformed" and "air carrier"...

I will say that the TSA has helped standardize things since the days before 9/11. However, there are still little fiefdoms that interpret the rules differently. The fact is that regional security directors still have a lot of discretion over the policy- regardless of what the lawyers have written.

Officially, non-scheduled 135 air carriers are not exempt. Does that mean that every airport enforces this rule? No. But there are some that do. And the TSA has specifically issued a directive that defines "Air Carrier" differently than the FAA does.

Of course there's one way to solve all of your security issues... spend a week in beautiful Artesia!

Not in front of me. :( It was included in the info ALPA passed out a while ago. Sorry that isn't much help. If you have the stomach for it you could try searching tsa or the e-cfr's. There is a link from the tsa website.

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