![]() ![]() atc, it was great to have someone who had some aviation experience. but as someone who spent 38 yrs on the inside, Every so often, someone will come along with the requisite management skills, who was also involved in some form of aviation, but that’s just gravy, like being photogenic, well-spoken, and thick-skinned. The job is not one where thousands of hours behind the stick will be at all useful. Managing such an amalgam of disparate (and competing) entities is the very definition of “herding cats”. The primary function of the FAA is to provide grants to states and private contractors for aviation services and infrastructure, and to supervise a tiny (relative to its budget) workforce. To reiterate a point I have made many times, a successful FAA Administrator requires no actual experience in aviation. None of the problems being recited are the “fault” of Billy Nolen, and he seems to be a valuable member of the management team, but the responsibility for addressing those problems belongs to the Administrator (“Acting” or Congressionally-confirmed). The latest atc errorsĪt KBUR, Sarasota, KAUS, just downright scary. Just seems to be no accountability in todays society.Ī 40 yr jr college instructor friend told me recently that if he applied the same standards of 40 yrs ago that 70% of the students would flunk. Whatever happened to the most qualified or by merit?Īviation accidents, pilots found not current, expired medicals, expired annuals, not cert in plane flying. Uniteds aviate pilot program At GYR, mandated, 80% min women or people of color. People in todays society getting jobs because of how many boxes they can check. unbelievable that some of the trainees we got passed at okc. ![]() trying to train and supervise the untrainable. trust me the last few years of my atc career wore me down. but as in todays society no more scores or grades. fsdo, short staffing, funding, lack of teeth to due something about the problem, law breaking pilots.Ītc training, used to be 50% washout okc. ![]() LODA, the new ICTRA cert database, atc errors, pilot errors. Many people below him should be held responsible. But alot of the problems are not mr nolens fault. “We’ll take a look at these near misses and see if there are lessons to be learned.” Nolen has organized a meeting of industry officials next week to discuss safety issues. “The FAA absolutely has a grasp on the situation and it’s something that we look at every day,” Nolen told reporters. He said the FAA is investigating every incident “as if it had been an actual event” and that the agency is fully engaged on the issue. ![]() 16 incident at Sarasota-Bradenton airport in which an Air Canada Rouge A321 was cleared for takeoff while an American Boeing 737 was cleared to land on the same runway. Nolen was back before lawmakers to address growing concerns about the number of runway incursions involving airliners in recent weeks. “I think a nominee like Acting Administrator Nolen would receive widespread bipartisan support and could get confirmed quickly.” Meanwhile, previous FAA Administrators Michael Huerta and Jane Garvey have signed a letter of support for Washington, saying “he has the necessary experience to be administrator,” and Nolen himself has voiced his endorsement of Washington’s appointment. “I think it’s clear that Phil Washington is not going to have the votes,” Cruz said. He joined the FAA as its associate administrator for aviation safety. He also served in senior executive posts for Airlines for America, Qantas and WestJet in an aviation career spanning 33 years. Nolen had a long career as an American Airlines pilot before becoming its manager of flight safety. ![]()
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