Re: Do we, as a group, just suck?
- From: "John Larson" <None ...>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:38:12 -0700
Great story about Washougal Washington, when the airport went to something
called the Port of Washougal.
The powers that were in the Port made up a bunch of new rules to be able to
part your AC at the airport and use a hangar etc.
As I remember it, you had to make copies of your certificate, medical and
insurance. It turned out there were some people who amazingly enough
(sarcasm) never got their license.
How about the IFR addition to the PPL.
It seems a guy went to South America to pick up some business partners and
upon return, it was foggy in the Portland area. I don't remember which hill
he hit - doesn't really matter since everyone was splattered all over it.
Turns out the guy had a PPL but never took the time to actually get the IFR
rating.
He had been flying for many years - just figured it out for himself.
Unless the TSA or Homeland security people put the Oregon Boot on every
small airplane in America, they can't keep us on the ground no matter how
many revocations the FAA issues.
"Michael" <usenetreplies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1122674271.811495.74690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Getting rid of the bottom 10% of the
>> barrel won't render us politically ineffective.
>
> The bottom 10% of the barrel lasts exactly as long as the barrel
> itself. Keep cutrting it, and we will be politically ineffective soon
> enough. We're damn near there already.
>
> There are already mechanisms in place to prevent the unfit from taking
> to the skies - it takes both a CFI to sign off on the checkride, and a
> DE to issue the ticket. What steps do you think you're going to add to
> the process? Who will administer them?
>
> If it's the same people, they need no new powers. A DE already has
> very broad discretion for busting an applicant. A CFI has TOTAL
> discretion for refusing to sign one off.
>
> How effective do you think your filtering is going to be, anyway? For
> every idiot you manage to remove, how many potentially good pilots will
> you discourage with the extra hassle and expense?
>
> There is already a process for revocation as well, and it's pretty
> streamlined - no mucking about with any presumptions of innocence,
> rules of evidence, or any such nonsense. If a fed wants to ground you,
> he will gound you. Despite the fact that you can theoretically get a
> new ticket later, how many people, exactly, have gone on to regain a
> license after having it revoked (meaning actually had to start over
> again with the private?) and then went on to commit more violations? I
> believe they're all going to have a meeting next week in the back of my
> Twin Comanche.
>
> So you can make new rules - but who will enforce them? The same people
> doing it now? Then the results will be no more effective.
>
> Just so you know - plenty of people flying with no certificate at all.
>
> Michael
>
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