PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - UPS cargo crash near Birmingham AL
View Single Post
Old 23rd Aug 2013, 20:41
  #653 (permalink)  
MarkerInbound
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,919
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
The FAA has 33 planes and about 200 pilots and technicians in their Flight Inspections Operations Group. Their full time job is to fly approaches and airways and make sure they are up to standards. No DC-10s, just King Airs and biz jets. Every ILS in the National Airspace System is flown every 270 days and every non precision approach is flown about half as often.
MarkerInbound is offline