Thats what he’s probably referring to. 2005-2007 and the 250 hour wet commercial license straight to RJ era.

 

More babysitting and iPad lessons.

 

I suffer from a metal issue called logic

It is impossible to be medically fit enough to hold a 1st class but also too sickly due to hitting a random birthday to fly as a ATP 121, yet also at the same time be healthy enough to act as a ATP flying 135

Ether they need to scrap aeromed and just go off birthdate, as medicals apparently don’t work

Or

Say if you can pass a 1st class medical you can exercise your 1st class medical full stop


The FAA makes a joke of themself

 

Since when has logic got anything to do with the FAA?

 

No offense, but I consider spending 20 seconds telling you this is a waste of time a better use of those 20 seconds actually "contacting your reps" a better use of my time than sending an email to a server no one will ever read.

(To her credit, she gets the summer off, is virtually unaccountable as she passed the dummies anyway, probably has a pension with a COLA. Advantage: teachers)

Emailing your reps has no value (unless you enjoy endless spamming for re-election contributions).

Your high school teacher who decided to get the easiest major on the college menu for a government sinecure meant well, but didn't really understand how power actually works.

 

Affirm


Same reason I stopped voting a few years back, it doesn’t matter, George Carlin said it best, you don’t have a choice, you have masters

Like the notice of proposed rule making, FAA, ATF, all the same, they open it up to comments because they have to, but they just do whatever they want ether way

 

You all realize this hasn’t passed the house right?

 

Guess you give up easy, unless this is satire pro 67.

 

It has passed in house committee. That means committee reps have OKed it to be attached to the FAA Reauthorization bill. Senate is next, again, as an amendment to that bill. There are standalone house and senate bills, but at this juncture that’s not important.

 

And that means it will probably pass the house unless somebody really hates it enough to mobilize a bunch of their congressional buds to oppose it. That's unlikely since it's not really contentious with the public and doesn't cost taxpayer money. This means the house horsetrading probably already happened.

Since it's in the house version, the senate has a good chance of including it too. Unless somebody in the senate wants to oppose it badly enough to enough mobilize forces and horse-trade with the house. Again this is something that not many folks want, but nobody really hates it either (except maybe pete and the squad who just want all boomers to eff off and die). Absent hate, if it got this far, it's prospects are looking up.

I'll be honest, I don't know why these reps are pushing this, other than to give then appearance of "doing something, anything" about the pilot shortage. Yes the effect is real on small towns, like the one my parents live in. I guess a variety of industry groups want it too... basically all of them except A4A. But it's obviously somebody's pet project, and not too many people will pee on those guys' wheaties over something that doesn't really matter to them and doesn't cost them anything.