Case in point: I was talking to a TSA type who is in the upper echelon at TSA HQ. I made the comment that because of their inspection regs that when I fly I rent "wet" and fly myself.
He then told me that would change soon as the Government wanted to force anyone trying to fly any aircraft into a TSA inspection prior to their flight. When I asked about how this was going to be paid for he stated they were looking at a "per time" charge for each inspection. That means not only do you get a landing fee you will get a TSA fee to boot (if they get this pushed through).
Sounds like something the government would think up. After all, we wouldn't want anyone sneaking a weapon on board that they could then use to force themselves to commit a terrorist act while they were flying their own plane.
Considering that there are over 5,300 GA airports open around the clock and that many of them have only a couple of fights per day I would like to know how this would be done.
Personally, I believe it would be impossible without a very large fee per diem, and that would spell the end of most non critical flights, which would then increase the fees into the stratosphere to pay people to do nothing at all.