What a story about nothing, as stated above all airports do not operats a tower 24 hours a day, or not at all. Pilots are trained to land and take off from uncontrolled airports all the time. The only problem can result from not having as clearence for an IFR takeoff into weather, where the pilot has no visibility. But these are not gotten from the tower, but rather another facility, but sometimes is co-located with the tower. However an IFR clearence can be obtained by telephone. Without controllers the pilots talk to each other, duh, The real story is that the pilot did not seem to know the procedure. And as far as the TSA goes, well now for millions of dollars more we have another federal agency that give us as bad service as the private agencies. Boy when they went to hire, the were interested in minorities first rather than finding the best people for the jobs they had to "give away" and they hired the leaders first, duh, more of the best of the best. And I have not seen anything in the TSA that has impressed me, sorry to hurt feelings but as a pilot in the army, we often flew places on official business, with military vouchers, we were identified as members of the military. Seems like were were looked at harder than others in the security lines, now were are so trusted, yeah right.

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