Goodbye FSDOs - Lets make things more confusing

[over2departure]

https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/FSDOs-Going-Away-this-Weekend-229520-1.html

"The FAA is officially disbanding the regionally structured Flight Standards Service (FSS) on Monday. As of Aug. 21, the FSS will be based around four functional areas—Air Carrier Safety Assurance, General Aviation Safety Assurance, Safety Standard, and Foundational Business. According to the Information for Operators briefing the FAA released on the reorganization earlier this month, the initiative “is a service-wide effort to transform the culture of Flight Standards into an organization that facilitates critical thinking, interdependence and consistency to better serve aviation safety.”"

 

[derg]

Privatization, perhaps not so awesome after all.

"I was going to get a clearance but we're in the Southwest Shared Interest Zone and the servers in Twentynine Palms aren't online because of snowboard season".

 

[trafficinsight]

So... We're going back to the old model then?

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[MikeD]

Old ACDOs, GADOs, MIDOs and AQAFOs making a comeback?

 

[CirrusMonkey]

Man would I love to hear from @Houston about this.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

The story I've been getting is, nothing really changes at the local level other than whom people within the FSDO report to. A centralization of command, rather than a consolidation of physical locations.

I've already suggested to our FSDO manager and new FAASTeam Program Manager that when the dust settles they do a program on the changes.

 

[azmedic]

But then we won't be able to say "Fizzzz Doe" anymore :/


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[deadstick]

Timing this with the eclipse? Hmmmm

 

[deadstick]

The acronym will change.

The dysfunction and varying interpretations of the regs will stay the same.

 

[ahw01]

But what about the IFOs?

 

[trafficinsight]

The acronym will change.

The dysfunction and varying interpretations of the regs will stay the same.

I don't know, I feel like having specialists for each area Is a good change at least in theory. I was told by an inspector once "sorry, part 91 just isn't my thing."

*Blink*

Part 91 is everyone's thing man....


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[Autothrust Blue]

Old ACDOs, GADOs, MIDOs and AQAFOs making a comeback?

Can I start calling TCAs TCAs again?

 

[coks]

We had a guy from the region come into our flight school in Denver about a month ago and pretty much informed us that the region was taking over the Denver FSDO's DPE program due to mismanagement of it among other things, but sounds like its nationwide.

 

[gotWXdagain]

But will part 135 operators still be "prohibited from" (wink wink) running 24 hour on-call?

 

[deadstick]

But will part 135 operators still be "prohibited from" (wink wink) running 24 hour on-call?

You're not on call for 24 hrs. Your duty time just doesn't start until you get a trip. Oh, and since you didn't have a trip yesterday, that was your day off.

 

[gotWXdagain]

You're not on call for 24 hrs. Your duty time just doesn't start until you get a trip. Oh, and since you didn't have a trip yesterday, that was your day off.

Geez even when my operator was doing that rolling rest nonsense we at least still had our days off scheduled in advance.

 

[Adler]

But will part 135 operators still be "prohibited from" (wink wink) running 24 hour on-call?

I worked for a 121 carrier that did 24 hours on call, 6 days a week. Frequently your one day off occurred after completing a 30 hour duty day. They got away with it because the Detroit F$DO does not care to enforce tho$e rule$. Convenient that almost all of the other on demand 121 carriers are with the Detroit FSDO too. Maybe this will end the corruption.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I worked for a 121 carrier that did 24 hours on call, 6 days a week. Frequently your one day off occurred after completing a 30 hour duty day. They got away with it because the Detroit F$DO does not care to enforce tho$e rule$. Convenient that almost all of the other on demand 121 carriers are with the Detroit FSDO too. Maybe this will end the corruption.

Relocation of your CMO is indeed a common tactic when one office doesn't give you what you think the regulation $ays.

 

[trafficinsight]

We had a guy from the region come into our flight school in Denver about a month ago and pretty much informed us that the region was taking over the Denver FSDO's DPE program due to mismanagement of it among other things, but sounds like its nationwide.

That's not limited to Denver... The DPE good old boys club sucks.

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[mrivc211]

Just FYI. The FSDO's have alert systems(notifications) that pop up key "things" on the interwebs. I'm not joking either.