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Although I agree that an offending pilot should be punished, I think the punishment should be no harsher than any other violation of airspace rules. Perhaps a temporary suspension and or remedial training.
People make mistakes but should they permanently lose their flying privileges and possibly their livelihood because of a mistake? I hope that I never make a mistake like that but I do make mistakes luckily so far I'm the only one that knows about them.
Imagine you just invested 10's of thousands of dollars on flight training and now your a low time CFI out with a student in the DC area or by a TFR. You get distracted and don't realize you wandered into restricted airspace. Would you want to lose all that money and your dreams because of that one mistake?
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