Originally Posted by
TommyDevito
When previously did the FAA implement a program such as the Compliance Philosophy and totally rewrite all of their guidance to insure it would be followed?
OK, so you have never even cracked open the 8900.1, have probably never even seen FSIMS and I seriously doubt you've even been to faa.gov, but you have this grandeous theory of how all these FAA types will put their jobs and careers in jeopardy to ignore written guidance just to do an enforcement. Really?
And of course you're totally disregarding the posters here who have real actual working experience within the program and they have told you essentially the same thing.
And I have asked you to point out how all these people could use their written guidance to circumvent the CP process and actually get an EIR out of an office, or even better yet please produce one pilot who in the past two years was subject to a violation and received an enforcement even after being fully compliant.
And in return you launch into inane diatribes of infidelity and other nonsense.
Have a nice day.
Yes, I've been to FSIMS, faa.gov and faasafety.gov.
Again, all I hear is the last two years. What about the last few decades?
I've had safety inspectors tell me to their face that they did not care what was in an FAA order or what the FAA Chief Counsel wrote, they were doing things their way. If you didn't like it, tough. You learned to go FSDO shopping to find those who actually abided by the FAA regulations. Raising a stink would only bring undue attention to the complaining pilot.
We've seen a case where a FSDO hounded a pilot to death, was found as a contributing factor by the NTSB, then it was found by a DOT IG report that another FSDO covered things up in their investigation of the offending FSDO. What happened to those involved? They were promoted.
I know of at least one "rouge" inspector who loved to hang out at nontowered airports and violate pilots for right-hand patterns. No warning. No discussion of the FARs. Violation. Multiple, more than one pilot. Where is he now? Promoted, of course. Yes, he's one of the ones you claimed is gone, but he's still around. I'm sure he will find different ways to "do his job" and be the big sheriff.
So again, like a habitually cheating spouse pardon me if I don't suddenly believe the FAA has changed its colors after two years. Are all safety inspectors bad? Of course not. Most are great and I've had very good working relationships with many. But it has only taken a few over the years to make many of us very leery of the FAA.