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FAA Fox Guarding Pilot Henhouse?
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 ... ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 10, Number 24b -- June 10, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts. -- Larry Dighera, |
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