Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
The federal government has rules on who gets a pilot’s license. Most pilots think the rules set the standards too high, especially for little planes used in recreational flight.<\/p>\n
Minimum 40 hours behind-the-wheel lessons, a medical exam, written exam, oral exam, and a flying test to demonstrate not just ordinary flying, but also emergency maneuvers and navigation over unfamiliar territory, all for a private pilot’s license to fly a little Cessna. The requirements for lessons and testing get harder the bigger your airplane, or what purpose you’re flying for.<\/p>\n
If we applied the same standards to other recreational vehicles such as boats, motorcycles and 4-wheelers, nobody would ever use one.<\/p>\n
The feds claim they only want to ensure safety. Setting the standard so high nobody can meet it means nobody takes off, so nobody crashes, so perfect safety is achieved.<\/p>\n
I guess that’s how they’ll pay for Obama-care . . . nobody will ever get hurt again so it won’t cost anything to heal them.<\/p>\n
And all we’ve lost is . . . our freedom.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Obama is betting long on the idea that the only “freedom” anyone really cares about anymore is “from want”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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