Why would a Colorado Senator be so concerned with ELTs?
He had a friend who was a scientist from Albuquerque who was in an airplane accident in the Rockies in the wintertime, and wasn’t found and froze. It was one of those personal things that just became a crusade with him. You see that with a member of Congress every now and then. We successfully fought off the misbegotten MLS by ourselves before ATA finally joined us and we got it killed. It would have cost users billions in re-equipping costs. Another battle was DEA’s demand to be able to shoot down airplanes coming on shore that weren’t identified. Senator McConnell — I started calling him Dr. Strangelove — and I were on Larry King one night and Dick Cavett another night. We won that battle, and, in fact, we won it with the help of Carol Hallett, who is now the president of ATA. Back when we had one of the severe fuel crunches we got fuel allocated for general aviation. I traveled to every goddamn refiner in the country to keep them refining avgas at that time, and I got that done by
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