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FAA aircraft inspectors charged that the agency hasn’t enforced its own inspection requirements, and air traffic controllers apparently faced retribution from superiors for reporting safety-related problems (see this week’s story). Our question for readers: How confident are you in the FAA’s ability to keep the flying experience safe for travelers? What are your biggest safety-related concerns about air travel? Post your comments here.
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RE: Do you believe the FAA keeps you safe when you fly?
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May 2 2008, 11:34 AM EDT
I think the FAA does a lot better job keeping us safe than the TSA does. At least the FAA does more that placebo inspections.
The biggest problem the FAA has now is getting Congress to fund the upgrades to the Air Traffic Control System. User fees are not the answer. Europe went that way and look at the mess over there. You can't expect the operator of a single engine Cessna to pay the same as the operator of a 777. Per passenger fees don't work well either. Just like the interstate highway system, the air traffic control system is a national asset and users should not be charged. Somehow Congress and the DOT have forgotten some of this and allowed some of the states to charge tolls on interstate highways. Should never have happened.
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