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Old 5th Aug 2002, 04:43
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Ignition Override
 
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What if the FAA had grounded you about five years ago, permanently (following the appeal process) for a minor medical glitch, for which other pilots were never grounded while THEY continued to fly under Parts 121 etc?

You would be very lucky if the NTSB looked at your case and decided to overrule the FAA's random and arbitrary decision. The NTSB overruled only two FAA denials in the last twenty years! Was the NTSB afraid to butt heads with the FAA, due to Washington DC politics?

Read about what two (former) FAA inspectors did to arbitrarily ground airshow pilot (former test pilot) Bob Hoover. Read about how an inspector discoverd a method to ground KIWI Airlines following the crash of Valuejet; see how a trainingform,without a check box for windshear training, can be described as a "falsified training record".

After becoming familiar with some negative characteristics of this out-of-control bureaucracy, maybe only then will the naiive Pprune members begin to comprehend what can suddenly happen to YOUR career in the US, under a so-called "peoples democracy". The egos of some of our bureaucrats might exceed that of Napoleon, Louis XIV, Hermann Goering or even THE Donald Trump.
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