Light aircraft "could be bombs"

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>Most of you are missing the point - the point is not that this will happen but that it might happen and to not address it before it does happen is tantamount to inviting it to happen.<

Life is a risk. If we were all paranoid about what if then none of us would aviate in the first place. We would never set foot in a car or go anywhere. We would stay at home tucked up in bed but even then we might smother in our beds.

Fear can be a terrible thing as people usually do not make rational descisions when motivated by fear and fear has been the basis of many anti terrorist legislations.

Of course there have to be precautions taken to safeguard people from terrorism but my arguement and I am sure the arguement of most here is that Aviation has been made the scapegoat totally out of proportion to equal threat areas.

Any place where there are a gathering of people holds a potential terrorist threat whether that be the London Tube, Pop concerts, ships, Hotels etc etc etc.

Where we see aviation targeted in an unbalanced way is not only unfair to aviation and unfairly loads massive costs on aviation but actually increases the threat of terrorism.

Why? because it takes the attention away from equal threat areas and leads the population into falsely believing that the threat has been dealt with.

Should there ever be another mass terrorist attack and lets pray that never happens then I am sure aviation will NOT be the target as there are so many easier targets which are largely ignored by government or Government closes a blind eye because those potential targets would cause chaos.

Before the attrocities of 9/11 I used to show my CPL and spent hours up front on the flight deck. We can all remember when in the cruise families and their kids were invited to the flight deck to chat to the pilots and this went on for decades.

Now if I travel from London to Paris I take the Eurostar as it takes me 2.5 hrs door to door while using aviation looses me several hours of my day and gets me there frustrated and tired with all the security hassle and crowds.

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