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11-22-2008, 07:27 PM

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ewrbasedpilot

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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR

I'm hoping that a **good** person is chosen for this position too since I hope to break into this industry in the near future. My point was about the constant bickering that happens when names are mentioned on this forum. Looking at it from the outside it would appear that there is no **good** person

USMCFLYR

I think with what you've said herein lies the problem. We tend to want someone "we" want, and maybe not who's good for us. The same seems to be the problem with voting for our president, congressman, senators, etc. We vote for the person and justify everything about them, totally disregarding the harm they may cause us in this profession of ours. The worst part of the problem is that when they do something to harm our profession, the damage is done, and when they leave office a few years later, the damage is STILL done.

11-24-2008, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Phantom Flyer

Let's start over...Scene 1, Take 2.

Everyone seems to want an experienced, labor friendly Administrator who can lead the FAA into the 21st Century and address the issues that we all face every day. I agree. This is an important appointment.The entire federal air traffic control system needs to be re-vamped and changes need to be made that will enable our air traffic system to handle the expected growth of the next decades.

Why not make Robert (Bobby) Sturgill, the Acting Administrator, the next permanent Administrator ? He was a line pilot for United, an ALPA member and has worked in the higher eschelons of the FAA for the past several years. He knows the ropes and has demonstrated that he can lead. Why waste an appointment with Duane Woerth, or anyone else, who will have to go through a learning curve and then maybe, will prove to be an acceptable choice.

BTW, if you want to bash Senator Obama, President Bush, the Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Communists, yada, yada...go somewhere else...please.

Thanks and G'Day Mates

Bobby Sturgill was a college classmate of mine and I remember him as a competent, hard working, intelligent man. The high achiever kind of guy you knew was destined to be in charge of something big and important someday. He had/has my respect.
If you want a Union 'yes-man' or Union 'puppet' you'll want someone else.
My guess is he won't he'll give preferential treatment to pilots over everybody else he has responsibilities to. Just a gut feeling, but I'll bet the list of people better than Bobby is pretty short and the list of people who could do a worse job is quite long.

11-24-2008, 04:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ewrbasedpilot

Apparently, (according to a buddy of mine who used to be president of NATCA the air traffic controllers union), Sturgell is about as well liked among many in the aviation community as FRANK LORENZO....... After reading a few of my buddy's posts on his blog, he pretty much equates Sturgill to a brown nosing loser. Is that who we want as the FAA administrator? We've already got enough people in government trying to screw us. Why another?

I've had a chance to interact with B. Sturgell when he was new-hire coordinator in IAD domicile and always felt he was very cool. Of course, that was in the late 80s and I don't know much about him since then.

Here's a youtube video of B. Boxer 'interrogating' him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIy5j1Jg4Z8

11-24-2008, 05:55 AM

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Duane Woerth As The Head of The FAA?

I read an article recently that established former ALPA head, Duane Woerth, as a very likely candidate to be named by President elect Obama as the head of the FAA.

I want to know what the rest of you think of this.

I, personally, will welcome it with reserved hesitation. His leadership in ALPA was not without many failures mixed with, non-relevant, success to the masses.

However, we would have an individual that championed many changes at the FAA, for the betterment of pilots, during his tenure with ALPA.

These changes include duty rest requirements, scheduled duty times and the desire to eliminate CDO work with "regular" day work.

What do you guys think of this individual being, potentially, the head of the FAA?

11-24-2008, 06:27 AM

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I dont know alot about the guy but he sounds like a real good choice. He knows the airline industry and might be able to help pilots out on rest and scheduleing issues. However my two questions are what would this mean to general aviation and wasnt he the one who let majors allow regionals to get the rj's?

11-24-2008, 06:46 AM

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Phantom Flyer

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Don't Want A "Yes" Man

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Originally Posted by hangaber

I personally don't want a union "yes man" for the job. I want someone who has experience as a line pilot and understands the issues that ALL pilots face every day. I only support Bobby Sturgill because he's been "in the trenches" and may have some degree of understand of what it takes to move aircraft in todays' ATC environment.

I also understand that once anyone gets inside the Beltway, power corrupts and there is a "cone of confusion" that seems to affect decisions made in downtown Washington, no matter who is swinging the gavel.

We can only hope for the best.

G'Day Mates

11-24-2008, 07:04 AM

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ewrbasedpilot

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Having just watched the YouTube video shown in the previous post, I can say that he sounded more like a "caught with a hand in the cookie jar" type of person. He certainly seemed like he didn't mind six day work weeks with up to 10 hours a day, whether voluntary or not, for his controllers. In short, he sounded just like management trying to wring as much out of the shortstaffed employees as possible. Is this who we want running our FAA? I hope not. We experience that enough already in our industry................