FAA is seriously broken and change is needed
FAA is seriously broken and changes is needed, both to fix a dysfunctional regulatory mess at FAA, as well as to redirect an already obsolete ATS system with a seriously flawed overly expensive and ill-conceived NextGen (it ought to be called PastGen), pointing it in a more useful, capable, and economic direction, with sane regulatory and equipage criteria, and sensible targeted benefits.
FAA's massive failures abound, ...from examples of seriously policy faulty cylinder ADs, to fouled up medical standards, to completely illogical and decades late drone rules, to incomprehensible pilot qual rules, to a hopelessly screwed up NextGen,... that is not only heading toward a $40B failure right now, but now is being projected to cost up to $125B by 2035 and STILL BE A FAILURE.
While repairing FAA internally is still a theoretical possibility, nothing has worked in trying that approach now for decades. That possibility appears to be virtually hopeless. So the only realistic answer now appears to be the approach we took back in the days of the Curtiss Committee (Eisenhower era) and later the Ben Alexander Committee (ATCAC - birth of the "Upgraded 3rd Gen ATC System"),... to now bust up FAA completely, and start over, to fully reorganize the regulatory part, then to get competent aviation and technically experienced executives, ...while splitting out the ATS part as a separate NON-PROFIT ANSP (e.g., the Schuster Bill).
The key aspect to make it all work, will be not letting FAA drive the solution, while picking the right aviation and technically experienced oversight board for the endeavor, and accomplishing a competent redesign of flailing and failing NextGen, before it further fouls up the entire global aviation system.
Last edited by 7478ti; 22nd Feb 2016 at 07:15.