A pending security directive affecting the people who fly private planes is, itself, so secret that the people who stand to be most affected have never even seen it, wrote reporter Gary Harmon in the May 23 issue of The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel in Colorado.
A Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman told him that “some” of the fears about the directive, called SD 8F, which goes into effect June 1, have been overblown. However, Harmon quoted numerous sources from airport management, advocacy groups such as AOPA and EAA, other aviation organizations and even other branches of government, each of which contradicted the TSA assertion.
To read the full story: http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2009/05/23/052409_1a_Freedom_to_fly.html
