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Old 14th May 2009, 06:50
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AOPA Air Crew card has photo ID and is generally recognised everywhere.
Interesting. As far as I know AOPA is a completely private organization which doesn't do background checks on its members in any shape or form. As such, an ID issued by them is about as valuable as the McDonalds Frequent Visitor card.

The only thing it does is identify you as a member of AOPA and therefore the likely holder of some sort of pilots license somewhere in the past.

So if this card gives you access to security sensitive areas which would otherwise have been closed to you, then there's something fundamentally wrong with the security at that place. Proper security should not be a game of "bluff your way through the gate by showing lots of paperwork".
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