Originally Posted by
tdracer
The regulations spell out the minimum requirements - it's always acceptable to do cert tests that exceed those minimum requirements.
The reality of delegated authority is that the FAA picks and chooses what is delegated and what it retained, whatever you might think of it in your reality.
The level of ignorance of certification requirements, testing, and procedures exhibited by some of the critics on this forum is rather disturbing.
With respect:
This is a mainly a pilots forum and not so much an "engineering" forum. Your quote relating to the "level of ignorance of certification requirements" may have been construed to mean "engineers have no idea how critical pilots deal with required certifications during line operations", so this may also be true that engineers are also "a disturbing ignorance" to line pilots in general. Pilots fly, engineers do what they do!