Alaska: The FAA wants to increase the number of pilots who have licenses to 50%.
Ed story #1. Ed has several small, light aircraft that he flys off of his personal landing strip. One day, perhaps when he was coming in for a landing, he clipped a telephone pole with his wing. The impact caused the plane to spin around the pole until it came to rest on the ground. Ed wasn't hurt, and the plane was not too badly damaged, and it wasn't his "good" airplane anyway.
But somebody saw the wreck and called it in and pretty soon the site was swarming with authorities. The FAA wanted to put a black mark on Ed's record, but there was no record. Ed had never gotten a pilot's license. So the FAA sicked the local Sheriff on him, and the Sheriff came out and talked to Ed a couple of times, but eventually he too went away. And Ed went back to flying.
Ed story #2. Ed lives out in the country and his little airstrip ends at the road. One day the local power company came out and installed a power line along the road providing power to all the people living in the valley. The power line is along the road, the airstrip ends at the road, the powerline is across the end of the runway. Not good for Ed.
So he complains to the power company. They tell him his airstrip isn't registered, it isn't marked down on their map, and they aren't going to do anything about it. Ed goes home and shoots the power line. The line breaks, and all the lights downstream from Ed's place go out.
The power company comes out, fixes the line and yells at Ed. Ed doesn't say anything. An hour after the trucks leave, he shoots the line down again. The next day we have a repeat scenario: the power company sends a crew out to fix the line and a representative to yell at Ed, and once again, an hour after the trucks leave, Ed shoots the line down.
A couple of days later the power company shows up with backhoes and trenchers and buries the powerline where it crosses the end of the runway.
Update January 2017 replaced missing picture.
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