Dealing with the Feds
Well, just had my first experience with a TSA inspector. Not nearly as painful as I might have expected, but also not entirely unsurprising. We, as a company, are totally not in compliance with TSA's regs on flight schools, mainly because we have maybe 5-6 actual flight students (TSA is only concerned about people getting new licenses/ratings therefore 95% of the training we do doesn't fall under their PITA regs) a year.
I actually had told Marie several months ago that we weren't keeping/doing the paperwork we're supposed to, and she told me not to worry about it. The sheer amount of BS you have to wade through to figure out exactly what your supposed to do is staggering, plus you can't find a phone number so that you can contact a real live person to ask them what the hell you're supposed to be doing. Fortunately, the inspector just went over what we were supposed to have and made an appointment to come back at the end of May to make sure we're up to standards.
The funny thing is that we've /never/ had a TSA inspector come by here, ever. You'd have thought it wouldn't have taken them 5 years to get around to dropping by. Gotta love federal bureaucracy.
We had our new FAA inspector in last week...she's an idiot. I already miss the one who just retired, he was not only nice, but he was competent. This chick (who's not new to the job, just newly assigned to us) didn't even have a clue when she came in, then called me up the other day to ask if I could mail her some of our paperwork because she forgot to look at it when she was here.
I actually had told Marie several months ago that we weren't keeping/doing the paperwork we're supposed to, and she told me not to worry about it. The sheer amount of BS you have to wade through to figure out exactly what your supposed to do is staggering, plus you can't find a phone number so that you can contact a real live person to ask them what the hell you're supposed to be doing. Fortunately, the inspector just went over what we were supposed to have and made an appointment to come back at the end of May to make sure we're up to standards.
The funny thing is that we've /never/ had a TSA inspector come by here, ever. You'd have thought it wouldn't have taken them 5 years to get around to dropping by. Gotta love federal bureaucracy.
We had our new FAA inspector in last week...she's an idiot. I already miss the one who just retired, he was not only nice, but he was competent. This chick (who's not new to the job, just newly assigned to us) didn't even have a clue when she came in, then called me up the other day to ask if I could mail her some of our paperwork because she forgot to look at it when she was here.