FAA is the Federal Aviation Administration.
FAA thing or the the government websites I mean that's unfortunately the reality so um so getting prototypes getting
The FAA got us to borrow a United 737 with full Cat 3.
The FAA regulates aircraft, the FDA regulates medical devices.
not FAA approved and we were doing aerobatic Maneuvers in this plane I mean inside the plane it said warning this
And FAA also keep track of these reports, find out about any new problems that seem to be popping up, and we'll work to investigate what changes
But the FAA spec is equivalent to no more than 3 seconds of bad data in a year.
So that made the FAA extremely nervous because they think you can hack and then crossover.
But that makes the FAA nervous and they want better verification techniques to address those things.
Because the FAA doesn't trust anything.
And then helping the FAA have the right processes and the right training for their people, so that they can actually accept what's
airplane is not FAA approved and then dick Gran wrote Under it that's what makes it so
So at the FAA level you have data that's collected at multiple levels, so there's, of course, at the airport level,
If the FAA mandates a certain firmware for a 747, it's probably going to want those 747s designed so that the FAA and the FAA alone gets to choose what runs on it.
interest the FAA may be looking at themselves as a target from a standpoint
recommendations with the FAA quietly after all the claims are settled and after it's out of the public eye to try and fix some of the problems but at the
Why was the FAA being defrauded?
Why did the FAA allow them to tell them whether they needed to train the pilot or not?
There is another parameter that the FAA likes to use, and that's integrity.
It took 11 years to get FAA permission to do this with a 727.
But one of the things that the FAA investigators thought was, well we need to teach co-pilots how to be more assertive.
Why it doesn't work with the FAA is that you still have to certify that you're doing the right thing.
went on to become the the FAA he was also instrumental in developing the B1 bomber and he was on the one and only
percentage of original um flora and FAA that are there so um if you um I think
brought us here this is the FAA website which literally looks like
And that's something that FAA has to think deep.
If we go back to the FAA , there is-- and you and I have spoken about this before-- there has been a long-standing effort
So there is a system run by FAA called the Performance Data Analysis and Reporting System or PDARS.
The crime was defrauding the faa .
be that they basically told the FAA , that the 737 MAX doesn't require pilot training.
So now they're defrauded the FAA , and they slap a little bit of a fine on them.
the augmentations-- WAAS, FAA 's WAAS, is perhaps the grandfather of those-- and then PNT, Position Navigation and Time.
Like she was technically not allowed to by the FAA , went into the cargo hold and found all these animals, got the cats and dogs and even bonobo chimps that
But now, the FAA requires you to show that those functions that are residing on the same physical boxes are separated from each other, either in terms
Now I cannot how a guy at the FAA that just checks box and says, well, you followed this process.
Bidirectional transformations between the arguments and the artifact because the FAA always wants traceability between everything.
which point we got a cease and desist letter from the FAA uh it turns out we were in violation of like dozens of um
So we have been working very closely with FAA , Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Interior.
And so, what the FAA has designed is an exemption process that, on a case by case basis,
And that is work that's ongoing at DOT through the FAA , and, of course, at the White House.
It's a province of our regulatory agency the FAA to change the rules and the airlines to adopt them.
And also just a practical matter the rulemaking agency the FAA is the one that's going to impose costs on the operators.
So I think it's not just the FAA , I think that many of the federal agencies have that problem.
Well, the FAA , the Federal Aviation Authority was willingly, letting them complicit completely.
So, the FAA , the FDA, the NHTSA, you name it, all the Fs and all the Ns, and all the FCCs,
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a daily basis by commercial airlines pilot commercial airline pilots to the FAA , by Navy fighter pilots off the East
I mean, I was battling the FAA .
To which I would say to people that no matter what you think of the FAA , there's very few people who would get on an aircraft that was not certified by the FAA .
And all those guys are coming to a consensus writing a document and then the FAA says, yes, we adopt this as the new standard, or not.