FAA Administrator Emerges From DC Lockdown For First AirVenture Outing
By Gene Yarbrough
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson made the annual “Meet the Administrator” conference at Oshkosh this year commenting on hot topics such as the recent flight training regulations, MOSAIC, and unleaded avgas. After the obligatory welcomes and introductions, the Administrator wasted no time and jumped in the deep end leading off with the fiasco of regulatory chaos that has the flight training industry in turmoil. Mr. Dickson stated the reason for the upheaval the ruling has caused is directly attributable to a regulation, which was written in a manner that did not meet or deliver the original or continuing inte