I love how backwards things are in America these days. Another news outlet quoted an ex-NTSB who pointed out the threats to the US because of weak security measures at GA airports (see AP article today and the quote from Peter Goelz). He should know better and didn’t even qualify his statement with any data. Others also chimed in about the need to have federal government funding for GA security. Apparently folks taking off with stolen airplanes is such a widespread problem that we seem to need to act. And don’t forget the whack job who stole the turboprop from PDX, apparently that doesn’t count here, this is a GA issue. The fact is perhaps some airports are in need of more security but we don’t need to overreact. If a ten-year FBO employee loses it and decides to go on a joyride, there is not much we can do to prevent other than the obvious things like keeping keys and planes locked etc. This is just common sense and more government spending can’t fix that.