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NBAA, AOPA, EAA Planning Legal Challenge to DOT's Move to Dismantle Flight Blocking
Washington, DC, June 6, 2011 – The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) today announced that they will mount a legal challenge to the decision by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to dismantle the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program. The three associations will seek an injunction to prevent the decision from taking effect and will ask the courts to invalidate the new policy… (www.nbaa.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This is just the start. Next they will want to track your car, boat, motorcycle your kids tricycle etc. etc....
Look, it takes quite a bit of digging to connect an aircraft ID to an individual. I track flights for fun. As a matter of fact, I really don't care to see the "N" ID of the aircraft. The moniker "UNK" with speed altitude departure and arrival is enough for me.
Really though if one wishes to really stalk, they can access flight plans if they go to the correct source.
Celebrities and other public figures by taking their respective occupations place themselves in a fish bowl. That's the price they must pay for being public figures.
Oh, constitutionally, there is no "right to privacy"...The 4th Amendment guarantees us the right to be secure in our persons and papers from unusual searches and seizures"....Tracking a flight is neither a search or a seizure.
I digress.
Really though if one wishes to really stalk, they can access flight plans if they go to the correct source.
Celebrities and other public figures by taking their respective occupations place themselves in a fish bowl. That's the price they must pay for being public figures.
Oh, constitutionally, there is no "right to privacy"...The 4th Amendment guarantees us the right to be secure in our persons and papers from unusual searches and seizures"....Tracking a flight is neither a search or a seizure.
I digress.
Ken, when you become someone that the paparazzi, the press or a stalker wants to track, let us know how much you miss BARR...
Not that this affects me personally (don't own an A/C nor am I someone anyone cares to follow), but just because it doesn't directly affect me, it doesn't mean I shouldn't care. We all have a right to privacy, including the privacy of movement; it should be our choice whether we care to take advantage of that right (some celebrities thrive on the "chase", so they can choose not to use BARR).
The DOT's actions take away our right to not be stalked. What is next right you want to give away Ken?
Not that this affects me personally (don't own an A/C nor am I someone anyone cares to follow), but just because it doesn't directly affect me, it doesn't mean I shouldn't care. We all have a right to privacy, including the privacy of movement; it should be our choice whether we care to take advantage of that right (some celebrities thrive on the "chase", so they can choose not to use BARR).
The DOT's actions take away our right to not be stalked. What is next right you want to give away Ken?
i think we should be ale to track any flight we wish as long as national security is not compromised
Matt...Decatur still has an airport? Have they renamed it after Dwayne Andreas yet. When I was there 29 years ago ADM only had two jets and a turbo prop and Staleys had a pair while most of the rest were doctors with GA licenses used to escape to mountains, lakes and oceans. Judy Locke was a tireless promoter from the Park Board.
http://projects.wsj.com/jettracker/