Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Have you come across something that's arcane, anachronistic or just plain
useless in your travels through the regs? Well, the FAA says it wants to
know about it. The agency has issued a Review of Existing Regulations that
invites anyone with a beef about how the law of the air is now set to drop
them a line. "Getting public comments is a necessary element of our effort
to make our regulations more effective and less burdensome," the agency
claims in the document. It's asking that you list the top three aggravations
in descending order for it to consider. The FAA has to do this under
Executive Order 12866 and provides a long list of efforts toward that end.
"Our goal is to identify regulations that impose undue regulatory burden;
are no longer necessary; or overlay, duplicate, or conflict with other
Federal regulations," the document says.


This is hilarious! Knowing the FAA as I have I'm guessing the most
likely scenario as this plays out will probably be the hiring of 400,000
new government workers to handle the suggestions from the aviation
community as the 165 million mailings that will be generated by this
announcement begin to come in. This will be followed by 117 meetings by
a specially convened panel formed to study the suggested changes
followed by a letter from the FAA to the aviation community at large
announcing that the comma in sentence 13 in paragraph 6 sub part B of
FAA regulation Part 1,086,359, 012 has been changed to a semi-colon; all
at a savings to the tax payer of one million five hundred thousand
dollars and sixty five cents from the five hundred and sixty three
million dollars it cost the FAA to conduct the study.



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Dudley Henriques