| If there are hundreds of small airports without gates, what's the logic of having them at bigger airports? Did you ask 'What's 'logic' mean?" How about requiring every farmer with a strip to fence in and gate? Or everyone with an ujltralight? What sillyness. terrence LNC2
C'mon, this is an opportunity for those in the gate business. Employ
a double gate system where ones vehicle is not allowed to pass the second gate
until the first is closed. Exit must be accomplished elsewhere with a
single gate (and toll) to get out. Think of all the people that would be
employed building, installing and maintaining these gates.
My own airport, KARR, has fences and gates. The Sky
Haven hangar complex ( www.skyhaven.com) is
required to operate two gates. However, the fence at the northeast only
goes 50 feet beyond the gate and if you are willing to drive through a small
swale entry, is assured.
Grayhawk
Interesting observations
and questions.
My question is: by keeping vehicles from entering after
you, are you the police now? Are you expected to enforce a regulation, law,
what ever? Is that responsibility passed on to you because you rent space? Our
airport does the same thing and has for a long time. I think it’s to placate a
local congress person. Jim
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Subject: [LML] Airport
security?
Posted for "Douglas Brunner"
<douglasbrunner@earthlink.net>:
Yesterday (1/14),
I headed out to my airport (KMTN) to do some work on
my
plane. Recently, my airport has installed a sliding
gate with a code to
control entry.
On my way in, I
observed the car in front of me stop at the keypad, spend
some time
sitting there and then drive away from the entry. My
inference
was that they did not know the access code to the
airport. I pulled up to
the gate, punched in the access
code and pulled through the gate. I stopped
on the other
side of the gate, to limit entry to one car. The car which
had
been in front of me (and had failed to gain entry) then tried to
pull around
me and go through the gate while it was still
open. I moved my car slightly
to block their entry
figuring that if they didn't know the code, they
shouldn't be coming
in with me.
Well it turned out that the two men in the car,
were actually police
officers, and they did not take kindly to my
blocking their entrance. In
essence they "copped an
attitude" (pun intended) and gave me a hard time
about blocking
them. After a few unkind words were exchanged, we both
went
on our ways.
Normally, I am not a huge fan
of the (pseudo) security procedures at
airports. And
perhaps from time to time, I have been known to let someone
follow me
in through the security gate, or to follow others in. However in
this
case, it appeared to me that they had demonstrated that they did
not
know the code so I treated them (not knowing they were cops)
differently.
Several
questions/observations:
Since the number of terrorist
incidents attributable to GA aircraft both
prior to and after
instituting these security precaution is ZERO, is it
logical to infer
that the procedures have been a success???
Since the police
appear to regard the security precautions as optional
should these
security precautions should be observed religiously by non-
law
enforcement types???
Has the amount of time
and money spent on airport security post 9/11, (which
probably
exceeds the GDP of some African and Latin American countries)
been
well spent???
Or are these security
precautions are an expensive charade designed to
persuade gullible
people that the government is making them
safer???
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