Put down your crack pipe.
>> Private charters were allowed to fly after commercial traffic was grounded
You have that completely backwards. NO ONE was allowed to fly before commercial traffic was back up (except military).
Here's the order of the flight restrictions being lifted:
1) Commercial carriers
2) IFR point-to-point flights (no pop-ups, no round-robins) [bin Laden family flies now - charter IFR flights resume]
3) Normal IFR
4) VFR (although there are still some restrictions)
See: [link|http://www.alaskaaircarriers.org/pdf/FAAUpdate914.pdf|GA Still Grounded, Commercial Ops back up]
It wasn't until 9.28.2001 that student pilots were able to fly again, weeks after the bin Ladens.
[link|http://www.avweb.com/other/fdc0617.html|9/28/2001 NOTAM]
Here's a list. As late as November of last year, many VFR flights were still prohibited.
[link|http://www.avweb.com/other/grounded.html|Other NOTAMS]
So, if you "did a couple yourself" when the big boys were grounded, then you made illegal flights.
NOT TO MENTION that my statement that the bin Laden family was cleared for takeoff before I or any of my fellow student pilots were STANDS AS WRITTEN.
>> Plus...GW made more money from selling the Rangers than he made from the BL
>> Group.
Pay attention. I said that he made his first non-family million, not his last. You make no point here at all.
