Perry Mick wrote:

http://aero-news.net/columns/ga/PerformanceMatters/Perfmatters2001c.html

I especially like this part:

But why is it that the FAA cannot simply stand up and frankly admit its
error?
All the people I know make errors, and the ones I respect admit them.
But the
FAA is not a person. It has a budget (about $9 billion), but not a
brain. It produces
written ?deliverables,? but is not a writer. It transfers thoughts, but
is not a thinker.
It is a bureaucracy. And as such it adheres to the time-honored
Fundamental Principles of Bureaucracy:

   1.Never solve a problem;
   2.Never admit an error; and
   3.Always ask for a bigger budget, pleading that ?tomorrow? a problem
may, and just barely, indeed be solved.

But ?tomorrow never comes.? Did you expect anything else?
Fred Issac was a relatively recent Administrator of the Northwest
Mountain
Region of the FAA. At a meeting in Montana he once said it was not
possible to
?reform? the FAA, that the FAA had gotten beyond that. That the layers
of
directives, regulations, internal memos of understanding, of precedent
and policy, prohibit simple direct action.

--
Perry J. Mick
Duckt N7XR
http://www.ductedfan.com

 
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