Originally Posted by
scambo1
USMCFLYR;
You are talking to the wrong guy. I, like you, spent a good long time in gov't service (29 years mil active and reserve) and as an aerospace test contractor working with and for the DoD and NASA. It has been my experience that the FAA is always playing catch up technically. Why is it that RNAV RNP took so long to get approved by the FAA? Because they were steam guage 727 brains. The FAA doesn't develop things they contract it out and then question the product.
I dont despise the FAA, one of my best friends is an FAA SES and another is a Mx inspector (fulltime FAA) an old bud is an FAA flight check pilot.
I dont have a thing at all against the FAA. I am just speaking truthfully about what I have personally witnessed and been party to.
I have no idea why RNAV RNP as taken so long. WAY outside of my realm of influence. I'm as about on the ground floor as you can - and as such - I see ,and work with, the "little" people who do actually produce resuts in their tiny part of the world and are doing exactly what you say people aren't - pulling out wrenchs and fixing things. Maybe you are looking too big then if you don't believe that people aren't out there doing the *hard* work and not just shuffling papers from one pile to another - even in the FAA. Ask your ole' Flight Inspection buddy if he doesn't see the same thing.
USMCFLYR