The mailman thought he'd be intercepted.  The Florida postal worker who was arrested after landing a gyrocopter on the lawn of the Capitol building in Washington on Wednesday said people were waving at him as he made his illegal flight onto the secure property and that he expected he would be stopped.  Doug Hughes, 61, has returned to his Florida home, where he's on house arrest until his May 8 court hearing in Washington.  The brazen pilot, who rode the single-seat aircraft to Congress' home to protest the government's weak campaign finance laws, faces up to four years in prison for his stunt that briefly shut down the building.  The mailman wanted to deliver letters to each member of Congress to detail his objections with the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens' United ruling and its impact on campaign finance laws.  Hughes did not return a message seeking comment. He spoke to media at his home early Sunday morning and joked he didn't consider himself to be a patriot.  "I am a mailman," he said.  He talked about his daring flight, saying people did not seem to be concerned with his actions as he flew over the National Mall.  "It was amusing because people were not frightened at all. They looked at it and people waved to me," Hughes said. "People waved to me and I waved back. That part was surreal."  But Hughes said he did not plan to be successful and expected to be intercepted by authorities.  Officials had heard of his plot a year ago and questioned him about it but did not know he planned to actually attempt it last week.  "The security around D.C. is ironclad," he said. "I seriously suspect that if you were to get into a gyro tomorrow, it wouldn't work."  Though Hughes faces four years in prison for operating an unregistered aircraft and violating national airspace, he said he did not think his actions warranted national attention.  "At no point did I feel that it was not a good idea," he said. "We got bigger problems in this country than fussing."  He also previously told the Tampa Bay Times that he was in part motivated for his actions by the suicide of his son in August 2012.  John Joseph Hughes, 24, had driven head on into another car killing himself and the other driver on State Road 408 near Orlando.  "He paid far too high a price for an unimportant issue," Doug Hughes, 61, told the Tampa Bay Times. "But if you're willing to take a risk, the ultimate risk, to draw attention to something that does have significance, it's worth doing."  But Hughes' wife, Alena, told TV station WFLA the incident caused "big grief" for the family and she has had a few sleepless nights. The couple have a 12-year-old daughter and Hughes has two other children.  "I am his wife and I will support him no matter what," she said, but she added the "law is law … and he broke the law."  USING A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.
The Florida mailman who flew his gyrocopter to the Capitol building said he thought he would be intercepted.