Originally Posted by
WillowRun 6-3
Website of Senate Commerce Committee does list information for the hearing set for today (Feb. 15). The only witness listed is FAA Administrator (Acting) Mr. Billy Nolen.
After wasting 1:50 of my time watching the hearing, I came to the conclusion that I would learn nothing new regarding the scheduled topic (NOTAM outage) or the ad hoc topics of recent near collisions and near crashes. And, yes, there was no Mayor Pete but his name was frequently mentioned unfavorably.
One oddity introduced during the hearing was a video animation of the Austin incident attributed to Ted Cruz’s staff that was, in the famous words of the Dan Rather Memogate scandal, “fake but accurate.” The animation portrayed the Austin incident as occurring during daytime with excellent visibility, conditions that, if present for the actual incident, would have almost certainly precluded the incident from occurring.