Go Back  Airline Pilot Central Forums > Airline Pilot Forums > Major
FAA About To Be In VERY Hot Water >

FAA About To Be In VERY Hot Water

Notices
Major Legacy, National, and LCC

FAA About To Be In VERY Hot Water

Old 05-29-2015, 06:38 AM
  #51  
Gets Weekends Off
 
USMCFLYR's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: FAA 'Flight Check'
Posts: 13,835
Default

Here is a good AvWeb article that deatils some of the issues being discussed:
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...t=email#224171

A previous poster hits the nail on the head about it being a FAA employee accused of giving out the answers - not the agency itself as the title might lead some to believe:
...that some prospective air traffic controller trainees were helped to cheat during the selection process by one or more FAA employees...

...that a senior official of a lobby group that operates within the FAA supplied answers to a controversial "biographical questionnaire" to members of its organization who were about to take the test...

...by a member of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE) that appeared to give her and an unknown number of other ATC candidates explicit instructions on how to fill out the biographical questionnaire.
Though of course some in the government have to wonder if it is a cover-up! I mean they are so good at using the tactic, why wouldn't they automatically assume the same:
Among those calling for an investigation is Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Ill. He's sponsored a bill to force Congress to hold a hearing into the allegations and determine the depth and breadth of the agency's involvement in the alleged cheating. "Did the FAA know someone on the inside was helping people cheat, and did they cover it up?" Hultgren said in a statement. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, said the FAA will be expected to answer the allegations. “The FAA can expect us to demand to know the particulars of this egregious situation,” he said in a statement.
A separate issue is the CTI program graduates not having preferential hiring opportunities. Someone correct me if I am wrong - but the FAA never guaranteed a graduate a job correct? They MAY have been actually given preferential interviews, or some other leg up, in the hiring process much like certain flight schools had such agreements with Regional airlines.
Also encouraging an investigation is the Association of Collegiate Training Institutions, a group formed by more than 30 collegiate training institutions (CTI) that offer FAA-accredited air traffic controller diploma courses, after the agency told them in early 2014 that graduates from their courses would have to take the biographical questionnaire and would no longer have preference in the selection process for trainee candidates. Sam Fisher, the president of the organization and head of Florida State College's Aviation Center of Excellence, said the cheating allegations exacerbate an already frustrating situation for the colleges. Fisher said there is ample statistical and anecdotal evidence that the college graduates do better when they get to Oklahoma City. Also caught up in the broad-brush approach to controller hiring are veterans, many of whom worked as controllers in the military. Fisher said the biographical questionnaire has been failed not only by college program graduates, but military controllers and even active-duty FAA controllers.
How is telling them that would now have to take this BQ test be any different than Delta all of the sudden changing it's policy that all new hires have to ppass some psychological screening?
I don't see any difference in the second bolded part either than a current FedEx pilot who says that he would probably not be able to get hired at the company presently due to a past failed checkride or something, or a current Delta pilot taking, and failing, the psych screening. Timing is something in the aviation industry. Some have it, and some miss out.
USMCFLYR is offline  
Old 05-29-2015, 06:57 AM
  #52  
Line Holder
 
Joined APC: Jun 2011
Posts: 96
Default

The FAA's problems started with "Little Bush", remember he was requiring senior controllers to stay in the cab and wear coats and ties. This led to many senior controllers taking retirement which led to a lot of new in-experienced controllers. What did you expect?
Roundup is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
FEtrip7
Cargo
38
02-16-2012 02:25 PM
vagabond
Aviation Law
2
12-10-2010 06:56 AM
ewrbasedpilot
Major
1
12-10-2010 06:44 AM
USMC3197
Regional
66
11-12-2009 06:54 PM
vagabond
Major
2
06-24-2008 03:37 PM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Thread Tools
Search this Thread
Your Privacy Choices