make us all look bad
OK, I've got to vent here.
As a 1000 plus hour pilot with no commercial aspirations I just wanna have fun flying my cherokee 140. I do however understand that there are rules, you don't enter restricted airspace. When you plan a route that's near one then don't even cut it close.
There are enough misconceptions about the threat of GA without an aircraft flying into restricted airpace above DC and causing frantic evacuations and a mdeia blitz.
While unintentional, this pilot needs to lose his license for a while. The penalty for that kind of bad judgement or execution should be harsh. We risk losing our flying freedom as the public is ready to give up freedom for a sense of security.
The nonflying public is just looking for an excuse to add all kinds of restrictions to GA, don't provide opportunity. And AOPA does not need to come to the aid of this pilot (and student pilot). AOPA needs to say that they where wrong and should have privledges revoked. The non flying public needs to know that we police our own as well.
Just couldn't hold that in any longer.
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