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FAA Inspector Wanted Experience Required, but Rarely Utilized!


By Randy Rowles


Periodically, I have the privilege of assisting Part 135 operators with temporary management and training position services. My role may include providing instructor and/or check-pilot  the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) inability to support an operator training and checking program is driven by an FAA inspector’s lack of experience and/or currency in the 


A few weeks ago, I was working with an operator to become their Part 135 instructor and check pilot. Following the guidance provided within FAA Order 8900.1, we requested an initial cadre approval and set the process to move forward. That letter was crafted and submitted in October 2017. Once our principal operations inspector (POI) received the request,                        would conduct the checks.


The method the FAA utilizes when it does not have appropriate              


Randy Rowles has been an FAA pilot examiner for 20 years for all helicopter          


      May 2018. That’s right, eight months from our original request 


        helicopter and conducted a thorough pilot check for myself. The next day the inspector observed me teaching a portion of the ground school on the helicopter, and then conduct a          inspector that we would need a night vision goggle (NVG) pilot 


                 instructor of a Part 141 pilot school teaching NVGs. It was not just any NVG school, but the Part 141 pilot school that held the NVG training contract for the FAA at the time he was  to explain that although he was hired with an overabundance  helicopter industry, including NVGs, the FAA (his employer) decided to not support his currency, so he was unable to assist with our needs.


          experience in the most utilized helicopters in the commercial industry. For the pilots who do have industry-relevant experience, it appears the FAA does not place emphasis on keeping them current.


It isn’t the aircraft or customer base that provide the greatest challenges to sustain a thriving and healthy helicopter business today. In many cases, it’s the FAA’s failure to provide effective and timely support so that operators can do what they do best: 


 


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