[Dantilla]

As a private pilot, this story amazes me. After Sept 11, the rules became very goofy. Different agencies demanding different things of the FAA. Lots of new "temporary flight restrictions" that they would not print on the maps! Can't fly here, but we're not going to show you where "here" is.

I quit flying for a couple of years until things settled down.

Things have settled down. I'm actually delivering a 911 door to a fellow Pelicanhead today with a Cessna 150.

Every pilot with a brain knows about the serious consequences of flying in a restricted area. Every pilot with a brain knows there is plenty of restricted area around our nations Capitol. The restricted areas are now printed on the maps. Every pilot with a brain knows that you will be intercepted by fighter jets if you do something stupid.

It's one thing to accidentally clip a corner of airspace. Stupid, but forgivable. There are no orange traffic cones in the sky. Occasionally, air traffic controllers will see someone enter, and quickly turn away from restricted airspace. But to head directly through the heart of the nations Capitol?

A student pilot is one thing. But an instructor? I don't get it.