The February 27 deadline for comments about the Transportation Security Administration’s Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) rules proposal is rapidly approaching, and on December 17 the TSA released plans for a series of town hall meetings to solicit more input from the general aviation community. The meetings begin January 6 at Westchester County Airport and end January 28 in Houston (see box). The new rules would require all operators of Part 91 aircraft with an mtow of more than 12,500 pounds to create a TSA-approved security program, run all flight crew through FBI criminal history background checks, check all passengers against the TSA’s watch lists and impose new restrictions on carriage of certain items in the cabin.
On December 10, a panel session about the proposed regulations was held during the 8th Annual AAAE/DHS/TSA Security Summit in Washington, D.C. In attendance were Michal Morgan, the TSA’s (now-former) general manager for general aviation; Doug Carr, v-p of safety and regulation for NBAA; Craig Spence, v-p of aviation security for AOPA; Henry Ogrodzinski, president and CEO of the National Association of State Aviation Officials; and Jeff Price, author of a new book on general aviation security. Robert Olislagers, airport director for Centennial Airport in Englewood, Colo., moderated the panel session.
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