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My business partner stopped by and we delivered some prints to the FAA. Like most people would we pull up to the guard shack, and his is as friendly as a bear awakened from hibernation and starts yelling at us to do a 180 at the designated turn around area and go over to the visitors center building. So we whip a U turn and park in the lot. Go into the front door through the metal detectors and over to the guard on duty behind the desk. So we tell him the number of the person we are there to see, and and they have to give him what look like numbers or some code that I could not see. We both have to hand him our driver's license and he scans them, and writes down information, and fills out a lot of information on two lines of a sign in sheet, for each of us. We then have to sign our names.
He then hands us our visitor badges that he wants us to stick to our clothing. OK, back outside to the car, and drive through a circuitous route to yet another guard shack, and that guard wants to see our driver's license. He finally lets onto the campus. We were privileged to have passes that said no escort necessary, and we find the building we are to go to, and then a parking spot. Off to the building, and up three flights of stairs, down a long long hall to the right room. We finally go into a large office area with a receptionist that knows we are coming and she points us in the right direction to the office.
They want to see the prints of course, so we go to the conference room and unroll them on the big table. Ta Da. They are happy.
I remember "back in the olden days" when the main road that runs through it was still an open public street. No longer. I guess it really does make sense to have a high level security for the FAA home office. Several of the offices we walked past had large red signs on the door "restricted area" so we avoided sticking our heads in and yelling "Hey guys whats up? I figured those doors were likely locked anyway.
We wanted to go take a run down the airport taxiway, but thought maybe not today.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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