We have this FAA authority, which, according to the ABC Television Network program "20-20" which aired February 21st, 1995, has this management training program; to train the FAA employees who then trained the FAA air traffic controllers. According to story, men were obliged to run a gauntlet of women, who groped their gentiles. A female (possibly former) FAA employee trainer of air traffic controllers told us: "I was tied to my boss, who happened to be a man. Partners of the same sex had to shower together, and had to go to the bathroom tied up to eachother." Does this remind you of Army Basic Training in the early 1970s? Even congressman James Oberstar, on this same program, said: "This is Satanic, this is evil". What, exactly, is the purpose of this required FAA employee training, if not to brainwash into the belief that you must never see or report a coworkers errors or illegal acts, and, certainly, not criticize a system that openly does not work? You should be asking questions about how this type of "training" of government employees charged with the training of air traffic controllers ever became government sponsored at all, and government paid for at all. This leads to questions about who manages over this endeavor!
Our Vice president has said that we have the safest air travel system in the world! In the name of Ron Brown, who died in an aircraft executing an FAA modern procedure {of which all applicants for an instrument endorsement from the FAA must demonstrate capability to standard}, in which case the equipment worked properly to modern FAA standard, and where the pilots were not in any way incapacitated, I disagree. During all those years teaching at Texas A&M in College Station, and living in Austin, I lost track of how many near mid-airs I personally was involved with, AND how many involved the report of an unidentified flying object, while everything in the sky was under positive control! You can go down to the K-Mart and buy, for ~$100, a better positional sensor! Follow the instructions in another page, and for a total of ~$200 you can build a situational awareness machine that makes it totally impossible for a baboon to do what his pilot did to Ron Brown, or what ATC did to me, somewhat regularly. So, why can't we put that in an airplane? Because that authority will not permit it, and will fine you if they find it! This leads to questions about who manages over this endeavor!
Maybe try this {this might work}:
Let's have some requirements for credentials for ANY person in the FAA higher levels {Administrator, Assistant Administrator, Department Head, Regional Manager, FSDO/MIDO? Manager}:
Minimum of private pilot license.
Instrument Endorsement.
Minimum of single engine land.
Minimum of 3500 hours of pilot in command time.
Minimum of one engineering degree from recognized university.
Minimum of 20 years engineering design experience.
Minimum of one TC or STC or 8110-3 Certification Application.
Minimum of one TSO or DO160 or DO178 Data package submission.
Minimum of acceptance to faculty or teaching at a recognized aeronautical university.
Minimum of one management level employment in past history.
Minimum of 5 years aircraft ownership or 5 years maintenance employment in a certified repair station.
Minimum of 10 years of Army experience to substitute for maximum of one year of formal education.
This is the question for the any FAA Administrator: Do you meet ALL of these requirements?
OK, this is a small subset of my credentials. I have done much more than that. The point is, there are more where I came from. The point is, there are better than I am out there, in large numbers. The point is, why can't we have one run the regulatory authority, and straighten this place out?
Is it, maybe, because the only choice we have is between someone with absolutely no morals or scruples (would not be upset by what goes on in there), or someone that doesn't know anything (has no idea that what goes on in there really stinks)?
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