NEW: The #FAA is being sued over allegations that the agency violated the National Environment Policy Act when it allowed #SpaceX to launch the largest rocket ever built without a comprehensive environmental review. #legal https://t.co/qpmKazbqyG
The FAA just gave a 6-month extension for drone operators to comply with the Remote ID standard, which requires a drone (of sufficient size) to broadcast its particulars for airspace management systems. New deadline March 16, 2024. https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id #drone#FAA#Safety
Two bits of VERY EXCITING news! First, Nancy Kim is back to posting on the blog (see her below)!! Second, SCOTUS holds in Bissonnette that transportation workers do not have to work for the transportation industry to be exempt under FAA § 1.
The #FAA requires a 70% to pass #pilot licensing tests.
This appears to be, in large part, because the tests are absolute garbage. They are ambiguously-worded, they have questions about ratings you're not even trying to get, and the charts they provide have larger margins of error than the gap between answers.
If this test weren't so incompetently assembled, they could require 90% to pass and have more qualified pilots as a result.
Want to have an event to fly drones without Remote ID? Apparently you can start the process to get a temporary event FRIA by sending the #FAA an email at RIDAuthorizartions@faa.gov
This would be what you would use to create an #fpv race event etc. where you would want to fly drones that don't have remote ID at a location where a FRIA does not currently exist.
Boeing's ongoing #737Max crisis
"SEPT 2019: Boeing board of directors creates permanent safety committee to oversee development, manufacturing & operation of its aircraft.. DEC 2020: #Congress passes legislation to reform how #FAA certifies new airplanes .. DEC 2022: Congress agrees to extend a deadline for new standards for modern cockpit alerts stemming fr 2020 legislation after intense lobbying fr Boeing" #Boeing puts #profits b4 safety & lives because they CAN in USA! https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2719714/timeline-boeings-ongoing-737-max-crisis
NEW POST: What do Gandalf, Hannibal Lecter, Chewbacca and Jerry Seinfeld have in common? It turns out each of these characters has a specific point of latitude and longitude named after them, which you can find printed on FAA aviation maps. I dig into these insanely information-dense maps, and hear how pilots use them. #aviation#FAA
I should also say that #Boeing was never really held to account for this massive wrongdoing and (former CEOs) James McNerney and Dennis Muilenburg are off counting their millions somewhere.
That. Ain't. Right.
Naturally, Boeing tapped Dave Calhoun, who was on Boeing's board while this wrongdoing occurred and tried to downplay the wrongdoings later, as their current CEO.
Boeing has 90 days to come up with a plan to fix quality control issues, the FAA said Wednesday. Critics say those problems go far beyond the door plug that blew off a 737 Max in midair last month.
"the #mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for politics. People writing about #SpaceExploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye 👀 on how our national monies are spent."
Since all launch vehicles are specialized - and literally #RocketScience - the #FAA believes operators are best suited to sniff out root causes and identify corrective actions. The agency estimates that in-house investigations could take the agency 10-20 times longer 🥱.
As for #HumanSpaceflight / tourism, the industry has been operating under an eight-year “learning period,” where the FAA is restricted from enacting regulations. The learning period is set to expire on 📆 Jan. 1 https://payloadspace.com/the-gao-calls-for-the-faa-to-improve-its-mishap-investigation-process/
The FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix quality control issues. Critics say they run deep (www.npr.org)
Boeing has 90 days to come up with a plan to fix quality control issues, the FAA said Wednesday. Critics say those problems go far beyond the door plug that blew off a 737 Max in midair last month.