> The FAA is very happy to issue pilot certificates, it is job security for them. After issuing the new certificate they will spend the next four or five decades trying to get it back. Nope, it is much better to kindly deny their invitation to chat.<
Well there are accident investigation folks and regulatory folks. The latter do not participate in the interview process unless invited. The regulatory folks are sure to be incouraged to dig deeper on their own, if the accident investigating folks got little cooperation.
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