by Jeff Price | Feb 19, 2010 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security
We’re heard the term before – suicide-by-cop. This is where someone threatens the police with a gun to get the police to kill the individual. On February 18, we witnessed suicide-by-small-plane. We did not witness a terrorist attack. We barely witnessed an...
by Jeff Price | Jun 19, 2009 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security
The Office of the Inspector General released it’s report on TSA’s Role in General Aviation Security (click here for copy). In it, the Inspector General noted that the terrorism threat posed by general aviation aircraft is “limited and mostly...
by Jeff Price | Apr 7, 2009 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Uncategorized
The Denver Post reported today about the impacts of Security Directive 08F on several small commercial service airports in Colorado. To view the article, click here. DISCLOSURE: Since 08F is a Security Directive and by nature, is Sensitive Security Information, I will...
by Jeff Price | Apr 2, 2009 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Uncategorized
Seems the GA community is in an uproar because some GA Fixed-Base Operators at some commercial service airports have experienced TSA’s new Playbook program. See the article here: http://www.avjobsweekly.com/enews/content.asp?bm=472 What the operators have...
by Jeff Price | Feb 1, 2009 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security
With the mantra, “in the name of homeland security,” still frequently being hauled out to justify both good and bad ideas, let’s look at the latest measures proposed by the TSA – the Large Aircraft Security Program. Many who do not own private...
by Jeff Price | Jan 30, 2009 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, General Aviation Airport Security
Speaking on behalf of the American Association of Airport Executives, the State of Colorado and Centennial Airport (the nation’s 3rd busiest general aviation airport), airport director Robert Olislagers spoke at the TSA public forum in Houston on the Large...