denverpilot
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This may be really old news, but I couldn't find a previous thread on it.
135 Operator grounded for almost 15 months by an Emergency Revocation of their 135 Certificate for Air Ambulance operations. NTSB makes FAA pay $120,169.35 in 2010.
http://www.amtonline.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=10439
That's shocking enough, but the really interesting part is the deposition of the FAA Inspector.
No qualifications to do the job (he's former law enforcement, is all, according to a note I found somewhere) and has basically has nothing to say throughout the deposition as the Attorney asks him why he issued the Emergency Revocation in the first place.
He alludes to the idea that the person in charge of Maintenance for Air Trek "isn't sharp", as he's deposed on his own rules and can't list them, name them, or tell anyone why he did what he did.
Part 1
Part 2
As he states at the beginning of part 1, he's not only an Aviation Safety Inspector, but his specialty is Avionics. No A&P, no Avionics training. Nothing.
Makes one feel good to study the FARs, keep current, and do the right things -- when the FAA themselves can't hire people worthy of the title "Inspector", doesn't it?
And not to send this straight to SZ, but I'm deadly serious (and yes, the pun is intended)... these people want to run healthcare.
Apparently this guy is out of the Scottsdale FSDO, according to other various sources. Google turns up quite a bit of this, and I don't remember ever hearing jack about it.
No wonder more businesses don't start up in Aviation these days, eh? Some doofus with no qualifications can just slap them with an Emergency Revocation and put them out of business the next day, and it'll take over a year to straighten it out. Note also that the article says the NTSB's action to override these shenanigans was "unprecedented". That give you a warm fuzzy that they've never seen anything like this nor had to do this before? (Somehow I'm not believing they've never seen it.)
He has a very nice American Flag necktie though -- that makes everything all better, right?
We can all only pray we never run into someone this clueless on the ramp, clipboard in hand, I guess.
135 Operator grounded for almost 15 months by an Emergency Revocation of their 135 Certificate for Air Ambulance operations. NTSB makes FAA pay $120,169.35 in 2010.
http://www.amtonline.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=10439
That's shocking enough, but the really interesting part is the deposition of the FAA Inspector.
No qualifications to do the job (he's former law enforcement, is all, according to a note I found somewhere) and has basically has nothing to say throughout the deposition as the Attorney asks him why he issued the Emergency Revocation in the first place.
He alludes to the idea that the person in charge of Maintenance for Air Trek "isn't sharp", as he's deposed on his own rules and can't list them, name them, or tell anyone why he did what he did.
Part 1
Part 2
As he states at the beginning of part 1, he's not only an Aviation Safety Inspector, but his specialty is Avionics. No A&P, no Avionics training. Nothing.
Makes one feel good to study the FARs, keep current, and do the right things -- when the FAA themselves can't hire people worthy of the title "Inspector", doesn't it?
And not to send this straight to SZ, but I'm deadly serious (and yes, the pun is intended)... these people want to run healthcare.
Apparently this guy is out of the Scottsdale FSDO, according to other various sources. Google turns up quite a bit of this, and I don't remember ever hearing jack about it.
No wonder more businesses don't start up in Aviation these days, eh? Some doofus with no qualifications can just slap them with an Emergency Revocation and put them out of business the next day, and it'll take over a year to straighten it out. Note also that the article says the NTSB's action to override these shenanigans was "unprecedented". That give you a warm fuzzy that they've never seen anything like this nor had to do this before? (Somehow I'm not believing they've never seen it.)
He has a very nice American Flag necktie though -- that makes everything all better, right?
We can all only pray we never run into someone this clueless on the ramp, clipboard in hand, I guess.