Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"Their area of expertise is Washington politics and federal rule making. They are doing their best to help us but they are playing catch up," he wrote. "The horse is already out of the barn. This is new territory for them. They are most effective in the proposed rule making process not in changing law."

Source: Jim Brannan, President of Mazzei Flying Service in Fresno, CA and a board member of SAFE, in a letter to California flight school owners that the national lobbying organizations may not be effective in convincing the California legislature to exempt flight schools from recent regulatory proposals.

FMI: www.safepilots.org, www.leginfo.ca.gov