[JYO] AOPA turns up the heat in the national media

— AOPA's extensive media efforts have appeared in 
national news media this week. For example, the Wall Street Journal today 
reported on AOPA's lobbying efforts to free the GA 41,000. The story quoted 
Phil Boyer saying, "If we know what NSC's thinking is, we can help come up 
with a solution," referring to AOPA's request that Congress intervene with 
the National Security Council so that reasonable procedures can be crafted to 
allow general aviation to fly again in Class B airspace. (See "It's now time 
for member action!")

And AOPA's efforts were prominent in USA Today. Boyer answered an editorial 
on general aviation security, pointing out that general aviation poses a 
small risk and urging a reasoned response to new security requirements In the 
Money section of the paper, an AOPA-influenced article detailed the impact of 
the current restrictions on general aviation.

In the influential Washington Post (read by decision-makers in Washington) a 
story today also details the impact on GA, while a story last Thursday talked 
about aircraft trapped inside the Class B and the effects on flight 
instruction. The New York Times this weekend explains enhanced Class B 
airspace and pointed out that student pilots could fly solo VFR in that 
airspace, but that certificated pilots could not. The paper wrote, "The 
president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Phil Boyer, called 
the new set of rules 'lunacy.'"

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