India_Mike:
Yeh, I guess none of us can really fathom the inner workings of Government bureaucracies and as time marches on they get ever more cluster.ucked with evasive myopic policies and rules that is churned out of the innards of the ever expanding legions of deep thinkers that they employ.
I am just starting my retirement from a lifetime of aviation and this is my first summer off in over fifty years, the adjstment from working in aviation to retirement took about two heart beats.
One of the most enjoyable flights of my career was April 29/06 when I boarded a KLM MD11 in Amsterdam for my flight home to Vancouver after finishing my last commitment in the flying business...
....anyhow I will of course ocassionally surf these boards to see what is happening in the flying arena just for something to do.
Chuck E.