Skylune wrote:
Like other
bureaucracies, it seeks to protect and enlarge itself, with no
consideration to anything outside of its own mission: to expand aviation.

We are losing airports in the US almost weekly, so if the FAA considers
expansion of aviation its only mission, it is failing.

The bureaucracy is growing though, and the rule books get thicker. The
GA community seems to be shrinking, because flying seems to be more
about knowing all the rules than it is about the airplane.