I say if you're flying intrastate you take off and land when you damn well please. What's a few thousand lives each year compared to the freedom guaranteed to us by the U.S. Constitution?
Paulsen, at most of the airports in this country, pilots do indeed "take off and land" when they "damn well please". ['most' airports are uncontrolled, except for the rules of common courtesy]
You really don't have a clue on how dim witted some of your comments make you look, do you?
I think everyone but you understood the point I was making.