Stan3818,
You seem to be chasing a straw man of unspecified dimensions. Choosing to ignore a NOTAM by flying your SR22 500 AGL over power plant when you could have chosen many other flight paths is a different kind of discussion than passing overhead in search of glider thermals.
Separately, I would suggest that one of us in the law might offer to assist Mr. Fleming. Depending on the details, his agreeing not to sue may amount to another violation of constitutional protections. When private parties do this kind of thing, we call it extortion. I hope he will pursue a legal remedy even if he donates the settlement to charity. Otherwise, we are going to read about this again, perhaps with an even less desirable outcome. As glider pilots know, this unlawful order to land could have cost Mr. Flemming life or limb.
Hey Flying! I second the request to drop Captcha, given that we are already logged in.
Dear Stan xxxx and Dontop: Yours are absurd statements. Nuke plants are not charted as such, so explain how XC pilots are to know which stack is a nuke vs a steam plant vs a rubber ducky factory? Answer: You cannot. They are all marked 'stacks.' During the craze in the weeks after 9/11 FSS briefed the LL of nuke sites. Good info to have eh Comrads?
The rest on the list are equally silly and except for large assemblies of tender bodies are a brilliant light shining on how little you, certain SC LE agencies and the makers of such lists know about ballistics, high explosives and energy dissipation. Imagine the air traffic system if all aircraft regardless of altitude were to respect such a stupid edict and avoid all on the list: It would be an impossible routing. I live in the middle of a nuclear missile field - 220 of the suckers planted willy nilly. toss in a few dozen power dams, ball fields, radar sites and AFBs and it is impossible not to overfly or loiter over someone's precious ground, some of which is literally designed to survive a directed nuclear attack, which should render the issue moot.
The Chicken Littles ignore that the containment vessel at ALL US nuke power plants were built to survive earthquakes and a massive steam explosion from within. The kinetics of an airliner let alone a Cessna are fleas on a gnats behind compared to their designed resistance to internal and surreptitious attack.
The feeble damage done in the 2002 plane crash into a Tampa high-rise should have given you all the knowledge on ballistics an airplane fear-monger needs to know. Supporting that fear-mongering is no different than spreading old wives tales and other untruths.
Our storehouse of ignorance isn't the 'I don't knows.' 'It's the knowing of so much that just isn't so.' Incorporating ignorance into a notam or reg doesn't make it true.