Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
With a nomination for FAA Administrator pending before the Senate, and news reports to some extent favoring the nominee precisely because he is not from within the FAA domain other than a brief stint in airport administration, progress or not-progress for confirmation could get very interesting. Or, does lacking extensive or meaningful experience and familiarity with FAA's administrative functions really constitute a "plus" for solving the agency's recently revealed issues and problems?
Oh the irony. The precipitating event for the current crisis in the FAA was Boeing with the MCAS fiasco, a company that had a board of directors that lacked any professional aviation qualifications or significant relevant aviation management experience.
The profound lack of understanding as to the value of engineering excellence lead to the company culture that inevitably lead to the smoking hole. A BOD that didn’t know what they didn’t know directly lead to the appointment of a C suite that incentivized all the wrong behaviours
That ended so well the obvious solution is to ignore what happened and appoint a FAA administrator with no professional aviation qualifications or significant relevant aviation experience so the cycle of management “success” can go on.
