Katie bar the door......better start sending more $$ to AOPA and EAA.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-del ... 1541175751

MTV

I thought the same thing, akin to hiring a wolf to guard the henhouse...

Liked the Ian Tyson reference. Thumbsup.

Delta is the only airline that is against FAA privatization.

It's official

https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/faa-regs/new-faa-administrator-sworn-in/

Time will tell.

He has nominally been against privatizing ATC. He has an interesting assortment of checkoffs on his resume for the job. He is a proponent of Nextgen, but who knows if that's a good thing or a bad thing at this point given the troubled rollout.

And it's anyone's guess how he will be able to navigate the 737-MAX problems. SWA is looking at other airframe makers pretty hard now, which officially declares there's a snow storm in Hades, and who knows the direction the FAA will pivot certification processes to keep that from happening so the MAX airframes won't end up in beer cans.