[JYO] AOPA Update - 12:38:50 PM, ET

AOPA pushes national security officials for decision on VFR operations  
— AOPA President Phil Boyer this morning continued a 
barrage of phone calls and messages to top national security officials to 
push for a return of VFR flight privileges. Those calls have included senior 
members of President Bush's personal staff and national security leaders in 
Congress.

Today Boyer called Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, a member of the Senate Armed 
Services Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence, and an active 
pilot and AOPA member. Sen. Inhofe said he has been assured that there will 
be a decision very soon on VFR operations, but that there may be some 
restrictions initially. Inhofe confirmed that it is the Department of Defense 
and other national security officials, not FAA, that are holding up the 
return of VFR flight privileges.

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