[snopercod]

...it was down to 50 feet and 350 kts....life was good;)

(Wiping a wistful tear from my eye...) Sounds like fun. But hot-dog stuff like that brands you a terrorist these days. Freedom is against the law now, don't you get it?

One more thing about the "incident". Sure, the guy made a dumb mistake, but we never did, right? LaGuardia had him on their radar and would have vetored any heavy metal traffic out of his way. The system worked.

[JETDRVR]

"Freedom is against the law now, don't you get it? "

Believe me I do get it! All I was trying ( not very well) to point out how ten years ago ............ I know you get it ;)
Now a days in this brave new world of ours "dumb mistakes " can be deadly serious.
The "hot-dogging" days are over for the most part in Bizav/corpav, thats for sure! The most derring do that our flight dept dun dood, was a two ship quasi missing man (falc2000-Citation XL) for a board member funeral last year.
IMHO thankfully said Mooney driver and pax did not become 30mm fodder!

[bvw]

Yes, it did. What horror had the man been shot down. Impressive discretion shown by the Police and authorites! They worked, worked well. Just like the afflicted cow was detected -- anopther major victory for a working alert system. To my view -- that beef thing was a mighty, mighty victory.

Yet the chattering scoundrels make it a defeat and monger false levels and directions of fear!

Of course, Mr. Michael Mayor Bloomberg had to greaviously insult the pilot's actions, adding to the burdern of that simple mistake in VFR flying. And burdening the general non-aviation community with unnecessary confusion.