Originally Posted by
terks43
Thats easy, steady Taxpayer funded income with a pension for life and the security of knowing no matter how poorly a job you do as a regulator that nobody is ever going to replace you. (Last bit is in relation to the entire FAA and no just a single inspector) The FAA doesn’t have to preform well to justify its existence and further funding, it just merely has to exist to get that.
FERS is not a simple pension and the simple pensions of 50 years ago are long gone. I've noticed the last few inspectors that "retired" died within a year or two of retiring. Pretty morbid, but the Government seems to save a lot of money on those "pensions". I know of a few that have gotten let go as well, not immune to poor performance.