cjcampbell wrote:

Capt.Doug wrote:


"NotPoliticallyCorrect" wrote in message As the FAA
concentrates on feel good politics and women and minorities and
homosexuals and GLOBE meetings and TWO conferences and Gay Pride
celebrations and lowering standards at the FAA Academy so women and
minorities can pass TECHNICAL courses aircraft come closer and closer
together.


Unfortunately, your message will be lost on most people when they read this
passage. It invokes an image of a hate monger. Women and minorities can and
do provide excellent experience levels at numerous FSDOs. Instead, why not
focus on the real problem. With the FAA's contrained budget, its employees
are overloaded in a mountain of work and the experienced people get fed up
and go back to the private sector.



I think the OP is complaining that hiring and advancement in the FAA
too often are based on things other than experience, ability and
performance, and that the FAA, like other government agencies, too
often wastes money on things that are not central to its mission.

The OP appears to misplace blame for this situation onto women and
minorities. In fact, lower technical standards and wasted money are
really the symptom, not the cause of the problems there. The real
problem is bad management.



You are correct sir. While people focus on ignoring the "race" and "sex"
the facts and shooting the messenger
or labeling them "racist" etc. the facts are this.

Most of the management now in the FAA is something other than
"hetrosexual white males"
The FAA is in crisis precisely for the reason you mention. Loss of
mission focus and bad incompetent management.
Politically Correct hiring is more important than air safety in the new
FAA. I know personally
of a high level FAA manager in the Atlanta area who is black that can't
spell. A man that is
making over 6 figures on your TAX DIME who is unable to spell or write.
You know the chaos in New Orleans with the "Black" mayor?
The FAA is just like that on a bigger scale. Most of the experienced
white males have left or are so ****ed and demoralized
that the mission is slowly degrading. It is a crisis that will manifest
in tragedy if not corrected soon.

Read this again and study it. Get used to it. It will get worse

Terror in the skies Tuesday September 27th over California: Five
dangerous passes and at least two near-mid-air collisions, according to
air traffic controllers.One involved a UPS flight en route to Orange
County, Calif., from Louisville, Ky. -- another a Boeing 757 (search er
jet headed to San Diego from Detroit.The incidents occurred shortly
after controllers lost radio contact with 400 aircraft coming in and out
of airports across the West -- when a computer unexpectedly shut down
because technicians forgot to service the computer as required every 30
days. Because they did not dump the hard drive, the computer
overloaded.The backup system also failed, stopping radio transmissions
to pilots in mid-sentence. Controllers describe the next 13 minutes as
"chaos," as some planes began to converge.So close was one incident, the
onboard collision avoidance alarm sounded, forcing the UPS pilot to go
into an abrupt climb to avoid a private jet below.