Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Friday, July 8, 2011

Even Arrogant Clowns Can Do Some Good, Even If By Accident

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has proposed legislation designed to ensure pilots fairer treatment and more access to information in FAA enforcement actions, reform the appellate process, and create advisory boards to help improve the notices to airmen and medical certification processes.
Why is Inhofe so concerned about pilot's rights? It's because that boob landed on a closed runway, scattering the men working on the runway.

O course, nothing much happened to Inhofe, because he is a sitting U.S. Senator, and, because as he put it: "I was supposed to have unlimited airspace." He had to take some "remedial training."

Boo-fucking-hoo. If any non-politician had landed an airplane on a runway that was closed by a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), marked with large "X"s and had construction equipment on the runway, the FAA likely would have gone for an emergency suspension, followed by maybe a long-term sit-down, ending with a repeat of the last flight test, otherwise known as a "709 ride". And that's if the FAA didn't go for a full revocation. of the pilot's certificate.

As this article noted, 709 rides are given for "minor violations" of Federal Air Regulations. Other than maybe inside of Inhoe's mind, there probably isn't anyone in the aviation world who would regard landing on a closed runway that was obstructed by construction equipment as "minor." Even if there was no NOTAM, landing on a runway that is obstructed is a violation of both the Federal Aviation Regulations and common sense. But no. Inhofe was required to get four hours of ground school and three hours of flight instruction. And he is obviously outraged that he even has to do that.

Still, it is a common complaint in the aviation community that when it comes to acting against pilots, the FAA acts as judge, jury and executioner. Some reform there is necessary. Too bad, though, that it comes because an arrogant and unrepentant douchebag like Inhofe came close to killing some people.

4 comments:

Peter said...

Hey, he's a career politician. We should think ourselves lucky he didn't fold the FAA into the TSA, so that a pilot check ride now includes an involuntary colonoscopy!

(WV: bunologi. I swear Blogger reads comments and makes up its WV accordingly!)

Phil said...

Good on ya, I knew you would have more technical knowledge about this than I do.
Up to me, that arrogant fuck would be taking the bus everywhere.

offlogic said...

Yea, verily: Inhofe is a total douche.
He's a walking Darwin Award waiting to happen. His iron-clad lock on his senate seat is proof that my state, Oklahoma, is redder than Mars and dumber than dirt.

bob said...

But it was nice to hear that the Senator got rather ill after swimming in a polluted lake. This for a man who does not support the clean water act.