FAA Fox Guarding Pilot Henhouse?

It's been said, that one should not attribute to malice that which can
adequately be explained by incompetence, but ...



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AVflash Volume 10, Number 24b -- June 10, 2004

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AIR TOUR NPRM TAKES ANOTHER TWIST...
Some say it's just incompetence but others are suggesting bad
karma is to blame as the much-despised National Air Tour Safety
Standards process hit another bump. It seems some of the meatiest
of the one-on-one dialogue between opponents and the FAA will go
unrecorded because the transcripts from part of a public meeting
held in Las Vegas have been lost. FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto told
AVweb a steno machine used in the afternoon session of the meeting
failed and the verbal submissions were lost. He said all 11
presenters have been contacted and submitted copies of their
notes, and the question-and-answer session has been reconstructed
as well as possible. "It's not as dire as some people are trying
to make it out to be," he said.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#187441

...DIALOGUE GOES UNRECORDED
AOPA was among the first to rally against the NPRM and demand
public meetings. Spokesman Jeff Myers said the lost transcripts
just seem like another example of the "folly" that surrounds the
rule and the FAA's seemingly dogged determination to implement it.
"It's sad and embarrassing and disappointing," said Myers. He said
that while all the written submissions survived, what's missing is
the give and take, ad-libs and poignant diversions that are the
hallmarks of a spirited public dialogue. Myers said the rule does
nothing beneficial and the FAA and industry's energy shouldn't be
consumed by debating it. "This should be shut down," he said. (And
he didn't mean the charity flights.)
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#187442

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Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts.
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