what one needs to comprehend is the charge of reckless operation
Spent many years in many levels of court discussing that one. In Canada CAR 602.01
is kind of a prize for originality - you have done something novel, that no one else has
done in the last 100 years of aviation, that didn't occur to TC to prohibit. That's the
kind interpretation, anyways.
FAA is apparently the same. If they don't like you, they will get you somehow.
Of course. Ask Bob Hoover, whom in 1993 lost his medical due to a puzzling diagnosis
of "Cognitive Dissonance". Bob moved to Australia, did his CPL exams, got a medical
with no problem, and flew airshows there. When the United States Senate asked the
FAA for more details on the medical diagnosis of "Cognitive Dissonance", the FAA announced
a medical miracle - the condition had gone into remission. This was even more miraculous,
because the FAA announced this good news without a second examination of Bob.
Not all of us have the United States Senate calling the FAA Administrator onto the carpet.
As OJ Simpson demonstrated, you get the justice you can afford. In Bob's case, as a
genuine war hero, he had some powerful friends that weren't afraid to go toe-to-toe
with some pretty nasty bureaucrats.
especially if they don't like you
How incredibly unprofessional. And they don't care if everyone knows it. Remarkable.
Similarly remarkable is the recent and unprecedented gutting of the FBI. James Comey,
Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Peter Strok - the leadership entirely gone, after a similar
bureaucratic attack on a democratically elected President (that they tried to stop being
elected!)
It's mind-blowing that these bureaucrats think they are above everyone else - the law,
the democratic process, the duly elected President of the United States.
They are fucking scary. And immensely powerful. These bureaucrats tried - and almost
succeeded - in defeating
the most powerful man in the world.
Think about that. Government bureaucrats are the true oligarchs.
