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Flight instructors blindsided by GAO report

By General Aviation News Staff · July 22, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK. When you eat bananas, the best people to ask how the bananas taste are those who eat bananas. When you want to know about growing bananas, you ask those who grow the bananas. So if you do an investigative report dealing with flight instruction, wouldn’t you go to those involved in teaching […]

Latest General Aviation Security Magazine released

By General Aviation News Staff · July 8, 2012 ·

General Aviation News’s GA Security blogger, Dave Hook, has released the Summer 2012 edition of his General Aviation Security Magazine. It’s chock full of interesting articles from a number of guest authors. Check it out here.

General aviation airport inspections and the TSA

By General Aviation News Staff · June 13, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK. In my previous post I covered what an agent of the TSA could “request” of a general aviator. Because the article was so regulation intense, I sent an early draft to the TSA’s Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs for comment. They afforded me the courtesy of a review with useful […]

Of airport BBQs and the TSA

By General Aviation News Staff · June 11, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK. I am partial to barbeques, so when I received a recent invitation to go to a local airport and enjoy a free barbeque lunch and escape the office, I jumped at the opportunity. I had the pleasure of enjoying my pulled-pork sandwich and iced tea with some local aviators that call the […]

Couldn’t sign the user fee petition? Here’s help

By General Aviation News Staff · May 8, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK. I’ve been receiving emails from readers who wanted to sign the petition against user fees, but couldn’t. Here is what I propose we do: If you send me the same registration information that was required, I will consolidate it and send it to President Obama. Perhaps there are many of you who […]

BOLO: Protecting our GA community

By General Aviation News Staff · March 11, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK. At last count there are more than 627,000 active pilots in the United States. That comes out to over 2.5 million eyes and ears. It’s the power of that number of eyes and ears that makes what I’m about to introduce an extremely powerful tool for general aviation security. You’ve probably heard […]

TSA comment period closes March 1

By General Aviation News Staff · February 28, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK. Do you know about 49 CFR 1552? This regulation deals with alien flight training and flight school security awareness training and is one of the few federal security regulations that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration requires compliance from general aviation. Are you interested in submitting your comments to the TSA and the […]

GA Security: Risk controlling — how much?

By General Aviation News Staff · February 21, 2012 ·

By DAVE HOOK How much disposable income should I invest in security stuff to protect my aircraft? This question is probably one of the most sensitive that I get because flying is not cheap. Even if we have the best of situations, there are still annual inspections and scheduled maintenance, repair of things that break […]

GA Security Blog debuts

By General Aviation News Staff · February 5, 2012 · 5 Comments

This is the first post of our new GA Security Blog, written by Dave Hook, an expert on general aviation security: With the Barefoot Bandit now doing hard time behind bars, you might think that the risk of aircraft thefts is diminished. But you’d be wrong. Late last month local law enforcement officials in Utah […]

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