Another TSA rant

[TR4A]

http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_multi_image_with_table_0212.xml

 

[viper548]

My crew went to the upstairs security checkpoint at LAX terminal 7 (united) and they said that crewmembers can't use that checkpoint, they have to use the one on the west end of terminal 7. WTF?? Now we can't even pick the checkpoints we can go thru? After my captain went off on them, we went thru. I forgot to take some change out of my pocket so I took it out, put it in a dish and handed it to the screener. He said it had to go thru the x-ray machine. They really need to x-ray my change?

 

[aeronautic1]

TSA Screening

Thousands Standing Around

Yeah, when they ask me to unbuckle my belt I like to look them square in the eye and say, if you want me to unzip my zipper, you have to give me a kiss first."

And then there is the after swipe of the wand near my genitels where I exclaim, "thank God I am not wearing my IUD!!"

Try these, you like them.

 

[Boeing747Driver]

Thousands Standing Around

Yeah, when they ask me to unbuckle my belt I like to look them square in the eye and say, if you want me to unzip my zipper, you have to give me a kiss first."

And then there is the after swipe of the wand near my genitels where I exclaim, "thank God I am not wearing my IUD!!"

Try these, you like them.

Too Stupid for Arbys

 

[ATTCS]

Taxpayers Screwed Again

In BOS about a month after 9-11 gotta say it was before TSA dribbled down someone's leg, a screener confiscated 4 laptop computers because, "You can control a airplane with these, I know, I saw it on a movie last night." with a loud shrill voice. After a second of dead silence the whole place roared with laughter.

 

[atrdriver]

BTW: Everytime I encouter the TSA, all I can think of is one word:

RETREAD !!

Retread or retard??

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

 

[rcbullock]

My favorite as a freelance CFI is that I'm now defined as a flight school. Perhaps since I own some closed end funds I can say I'm a multi-corporational conglomerate. If any foreign nationals want to train with me, they are going to have to pay my additional PITA paperwork fee. And I'm supposed to verifiy someone's citizenship before I train them. WTF mate?

And then there's the questionaire the local branch of the TSA sent me asking if I was registered with the DOJ, what airports did it teach at, was I an active CFI, phone numbers, emails, etc.

When I asked them under what authority they were collecting this information under, they really couldn't answer chapter and verse, just quoted the whole 'Part 1552'. She tried to tell me freelance instructors had to do alot of the stuff a school did, but could not tell me where it said that. Fact is, it doesn't per se, but in the definitions section, it defines a part 61 CFI as a flight school. Yeesh. This crap as I understand it made it in on the Vision 100 aviation legislation.

Well, I guess since CFI's make so much money and work so little, we've got time to do all this extra training, paperwork, and security screening.