The Craigmyles wrote: > > I doubt that I could ever hear the phrase "I'm from the FAA and I'm > here to help you" without responding with a giggle, a little fear, or > both. On the other hand, I've dealt with some very fine people who > happen to work for the FAA, who also own and fly classic airplanes. > While any organization as voluminous as this agency can be prone to > spasms of mindless, ridiculous abuses of authority, most of the FAA > people I've had contact with as a mechanic and CFI are where they are > through extensive aviation experience (outside the FAA), and also a > through a love for aviation. Government will always be imperfect, and > that means that things will go hideously wrong, and innocents will > suffer. > However, I do not want to live my life in worry and suspicion. I'm > not speaking of you, Dave... but if someone hypothetically wanted to > live in the woods, never read an AD or see an IA, do an annual, etc, > and fly his plane (solo) until the wings corroded and snapped, I have > absolutlely no problem with that. I have a vicarious admiration for > true anarchists. However, I don't believe in a halfway; and if Dave > or anyone convinces me that the FAA really is so corrupt and > omnipotent that we must watch our words lest they ground us all for > recognizing a problem, then I'll immediately pack everything up, and > go carve out my own aviation Ruby Ridge in the hills somewhere. Until > such a day, I plan to open up the inspection panels and let the sun > shine in. When I put my Coupe in license, any FAA inspector will be > welcome to look her over- heck, I'll even take 'em for a ride! This > was still America last time I checked.
Well said. I agree with you 100%. I have had many of those experiences and blanket labels never fit. Then again, I have problems with someone who regularly lands in 50mph crosswinds and belittles others for not being so idiotic. Speeding 25 mph over the limit in a school zone and then bitching about the fascist Cop who gives you a ticket, is not anarchy but childishness. Yes, it is still America and I have voted in every election since 1966 including the small local stuff. If every one of us did that, much of this "FAA Tyranny" could be stopped a lot quicker. Let the flames begin; Jim N99068
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