FAA Administrator charged with DUI

[HA25]

Politics will not permit a second chance. We've lost a really good man.

someone gets it... this guy was our friend at the FAA.... we're unlikely to get anyone close to as sympathetic to pilots again.

 

[Speedtape]

Does he lead by example?

 

[Golden Falcon]

I think he deserves a second chance. Just like every pilot that get's one DUI gets a second chance...

You'd better re-read the regs on that one Bro...

 

[Clutch]

You'd better re-read the regs on that one Bro...

Sounded like sarcasm to me Bro

 

[ultrarunner]

One might argue that Randy wasn't fired because he was arrested for an alleged DUI, but because his boss read about it in the paper the next morning while Randy was out flying a trip on an FAA aircraft!

 

[booo]

One might argue that Randy wasn't fired because he was arrested for an alleged DUI, but because his boss read about it in the paper the next morning while Randy was out flying a trip on an FAA aircraft!

Explain.

 

[ultrarunner]

Explain.

Explained:

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-07/...al-aviation-administration-officials?_s=PM:US

 

[no1pilot2000]

Randy Babbitt..poor baby.

 

[flyboyike]

maybe he thinks Randy was set up?

Set up how, someone force-fed him booze and them forced him to drive?

 

[HA25]

Set up how, someone force-fed him booze and them forced him to drive?

I don't know, but he clearly things Babbit should not have been ousted.

 

[flyboyike]

I don't know, but he clearly things Babbit should not have been ousted.

He wasn't ousted, he did the right thing by resigning.

 

[HA25]

He wasn't ousted, he did the right thing by resigning.

you can be sure it was resign in leu of.... but nevertheless...

We lost a good man. I've never had a DUI, but I know a few who have, it sucks but it doesn't make you evil or bad..

I'm curious to see who replaces him and if he's as good to pilots has he's been.

 

[flyboyike]

We lost a good man. I've never had a DUI, but I know a few who have, it sucks but it doesn't make you evil or bad..

"We" didn't lose anybody. He sold "us" out. For a beer, no less. Great man, that one, absolute angel.

Sorry, as someone who had to drag his own father out of jail twice after a DUI arrest, I am absolutely intolerant of that behavior. From anyone, by anyone, for any reason.

Or maybe he couldn't afford a cab?

 

[N813CA]

u are right like myself I have never had one, but people do make mistakes. They can learn from them.

 

[Golden Falcon]

It's just great isn't it, the whole industry saddled with the public perception that airline pilots are all drunks, and when we finally get an airline pilot in charge of the FAA...he gets a DUI....

 

[Jack-O-Lantern]

Gigity !