What is your mission in life Sunfish? To shut down the airport that you and many others enjoy flying from?
Peter - Sunny thinks more in the theory and hypothetical space than you, I and most others. He feels that if you are legally required to carry an ASIC then he must and if he doesn't have one because he forgot to renew it, then it must be the regulators fault for implementing such a stupid system where you need one in the first place.
convoluted system of escorts
You mean being accompanied by anyone at all that has an ASIC card...