The FAA will hold a virtual “Inclusive Language Summit” to discuss recommendations the agency has received that “promote the institution of inclusive language throughout the FAA.”
The summit will provide a platform for the public to comment and provide additional recommendations to the FAA as it develops an “enterprise-wide initiative to adopt language that is both gender-neutral and inclusive,” the FAA said in a Notice of Public Meeting in the Federal Register.
“The FAA’s mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. We strive to reach the next level of safety and efficiency and to demonstrate global leadership in how we safely integrate new users and technologies into our aerospace system,” the notice reads. “Because language matters, embracing diversity and inclusion will have a significant impact on bringing all voices into the conversation to help further the FAA’s mission…If any individual employee, contractor or industry partner feels excluded or marginalized because of language or words, the work of the agency suffers and opportunities for achievement are diminished.”
“In the spirit of bringing all voices to the conversation, the FAA seeks participation from all members of the public; stakeholders in public agencies; academia; not-for profit institutions; individuals working in the area of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); and the aerospace community,” the notice continues. “Input from a diverse audience will assist the FAA in developing policies, procedures and plans for implementation of terminology that is inclusive in nature in all aspects of FAA governance and oversight, as well as in the international context under FAA’s global leadership.”
The virtual meeting will be held Nov. 10, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It will be livestreamed on FAA’s social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
On the day of the event participants will be given the opportunity to ask questions in near real time through a link provided on the FAA’s social media pages.
You also can make your opinion heard by submitting written recommendations to [email protected].
When I was a co pilot for a major airline the Captain wore a tie tack that was a pig with wings, a flight attendant ask what it represented he responded that he was a male chauvinist pig. That was when men were men and women loved it. It was also when the FAA had something important to do. Obviously they have become a bunch of empty suits, excuse me I meant empty skirts.
Recently a action against a Warbird operation and the related court judgment was used by the FAA to reverse decades of standing practice allowing use of certain privately owned aircraft for training.
Along the way, we got to to read the official position of the FAA relative to Experimental Aircraft. Notice a few things:
-1- Airworthiness Certification with “no standard”? — FALSE – FSDO and DAR Examiners must follow established standards before issuing airworthiness certificates.
-2- These aircraft “pose a unique operational risk to the national airspace system”. — No data. No explanation.
So from a false statement, a clear leap to the desired conclusion. This is a clear example of how General Aviation is under threat. And the FAA is “helping”.
“Let me start out by addressing an issue that is a source of frustration for many of you, and for me as well,” said FAA Administrator Steve Dickson. “It’s a four-letter word spelled LODA,” he told pilots during a Meet the Administrator session at EAA AirVenture July 29. “I’m not any happier about this situation than you are.” — FAA motto in real life. “We’re not happy until….”
When FAA Admin Dickson was discussing this topic at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021, nobody asked about the FAA’s established position against Experimental Aircraft as revealed here:
https://www.eaa.org/~/media/1091C7E251904915BBF431FC3EB9B628.ashx – PAGE 5 of 8
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Parts 61 and 141 [Docket No.: FAA-2021-0592]
Notification of Policy for Flight Training in Certain Aircraft —
This notification provides clarification on flight training for compensation in certain aircraft that hold special airworthiness certificates including limited category, experimental category, and primary category aircraft.
A. Experimental Category Aircraft — In general, the FAA places limitations on the use of aircraft that hold experimental airworthiness certificates because the airworthiness certification requirements for these aircraft impose no standard and pose unique operational risk to the national airspace system.
Who voted these morons in?
FAA Admin Dickson was nominated by Donald Trump.
This isn’t a Dickson mandate. According to the NYT it appears to come from the new-to-aviation drone world:
A Federal Aviation Administration advisory committee recommended this week that the agency replace words and phrases like “airman” and “man-made” with gender-neutral terms like “aircrew” and “manufactured” as part of an effort to set a more inclusive tone.
The recommendations were part of a report released on Wednesday, drafted by the agency’s Drone Advisory Committee to refresh the language used in the drone industry, but with the hope that the wider aviation world might also adopt the terms.
The updated language would help reduce intentional or unintentional bias while reflecting a “more modern recognition that gender can be nonbinary,” the report says.
The committee convened a task force made up of members representing labor, airports, local government and aviation to replace gender-specific language in the drone industry that might serve as a model for the rest of aviation.
Stupid keeps exceeding my expectations.
This makes me so angry I can’t stand it.
When I started flying the FAA was a new agency and I thought it functioned well. A pilot certificate, including CFI, never expired, Neither did an aircraft registration.
Today the FSDO is closed for what may be forever. I can’t make an appointment to renew my CFI that expires at the end of the year. A very close acquaintance has lost his certificate because the FAA (and government in general) can not or will not accomplish their primary function.
Pilots keep crashing and the FAA thinks it is more important to “…… discuss recommendations ….. that “promote…..inclusive language …….” than it is to do their job that they say is “to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world”
While trying to remain civil, I’ll just say I think it’s cruel to enable mentally Ill people to continue in their disillusioned states of mind.
Colossal waste of time and money when there is actually important things to work on.
“The FAA’s mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.
This is the mandate. Nowhere does it mention offending or not. Ot says provide the safest. Period. By dumbing down and making safe spaces, trying ti make everyone fit, we are degrading safety. Everybody can’t be the best. We are all created equal then it’s up to us, not the FAA to try to level the field. The new norm is mediocre and that’s going to kill people in this business. An absolute, complete waste of time and resources that will do nothing but make a few feel good about themselves.
Political correctness has gone over the edge. If those whom are piloting a commercal or private aircraft are offended by the current termonlogy, the individual should find another passion. The FAA should concentrate on issues that actually have a benefit towards aviation. NOT wasting time and dollars on rewriting a Daniel Webster’s Book. I am sure there re some other issues at hand that could be addressed, like maybe THE 5G system which is jusy a bit more imprtant to AVIATION!
Please, first, define and quantify diversity and inclusion. Then, tell us all what difference those definitions mean in the event of engine failure on takeoff. Next local fight will be conservatives refusing to be pushed out of polling stations in November 2022
I wonder who’ll get a gold star pasted on their forehead for this “initiative”?
Is there no end to this “woke” stupidity?
No. Not until we get off our knees and jump down these peoples’ throats.