Re:Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for ...
by pdonis on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:58PM
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> What you talk about the FAA doing thier own testing and validation is (unfortunately) almost impossible.
No, it isn't. It's just more work than the government feels like doing, involving more technical skill than the government feels like hiring.
The problem is that the government can't have it both ways. It can't both claim that it is regulating airlines and airplane manufacturers to protect public safety, and also claim that it can't independently check what the regulated entities are telling it. It has to be one or the other: either we get the actual independent regulation that the government claims to be doing, with whatever resources it takes, or we all admit that we are not going to get that because the government is incapable of doing it, and we figure out some other way of ensuring safety.
No, it isn't. It's just more work than the government feels like doing, involving more technical skill than the government feels like hiring.
The problem is that the government can't have it both ways. It can't both claim that it is regulating airlines and airplane manufacturers to protect public safety, and also claim that it can't independently check what the regulated entities are telling it. It has to be one or the other: either we get the actual independent regulation that the government claims to be doing, with whatever resources it takes, or we all admit that we are not going to get that because the government is incapable of doing it, and we figure out some other way of ensuring safety.