AVBug this is absolutly an incorrect statement. I was a FAA Inspector and my job, daily, was to interpret the regulations. What the heck do you think a FAA Inspector does?
You're either lying about your former employment, or more likely, you're as clueless as most of the individuals who fill those posts. While the FAA does occasionally employ the rare talent, most who work for the administration, particularly as inspectors at the FSDO level are there because they failed to make it in the private sector.
Which one are you?
Those who aren't able to remain with the administration of course, are in an entirely different category. One who can't make it with the FAA, a place in which being fired is only slightly more difficult than changing one's ethnic race, goes beyond not simply being able to make it in the private sector. Surely you're not in that class?
If indeed you did work as an inspector at the FSDO level, you were never granted authority to interpret the regulation. You were given limited authority to administer the regulation but at no time would you ever have held the authority to issue an interpretation of the regulation with any legal standing.
Furthermore, at the FSDO level, you would never have had the authority to take enforcement action beyond the most basic level. After it leaves the inspectors hands, it's a matter for the Regional Legal Counsel to pursue. This is particularly the case with respect to actions in which an appeal is made.
An inspector has never been granted interpretative authority, which is soley reserved for the FAA Administrator. The Administrator fills a post established by an Act of Congress and holds the authority to interpret the regulation. This authority is delegated to the Chief and Regional legal counsel for specific issuance and declaration of such interpretation. Such interpretations represent the official position and policy of the Administration, and are fully defensible to both the representatives of the Administrator, and to those affected by enforcement procedings.
This authority does not extend below the Regional level.
How could you possibly have filled a position as an inspector, and not know this?
