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Waiting For FAA ApprovalFrederick Gevalt At the Pointy End of the SpearFrederick Gevalt Or How a Charter Audit Can Be Similar to Endoscopy or Worse Tuesday, October 17th, was a typical morning in Boca Raton, Florida. At 9:30, inside his airport office with a client, Universal Jet’s CEO, Michael McCauley was ensconced in the meeting, the air conditioning insulating him from the hot humid air on the other side of the window, when the FAA walked in to his conference room and spoiled the climate almost instantly. Introducing themselves as “Keith and Patricia,” (business cards were not passed out, nor has there as of this writing been any debriefing or after action report with details like the last names of the inspectors) the pair of FAA inspectors produced identification, and before Universal Jet’s client announced themselves as representatives of “Operation Charter Quest,” the recently formed national audit team for checking compliance with Opspec A008 and operational control. This particular meeting got off to a rocky start, when McCauley had to disclose that his Director of Operations and his Chief Pilot were both on trips. Perhaps expecting career bureaucrats like themselves, parked at desks down the hall, the FAA greeted this news with a certain amount of shock until McCauley pointed out that his Assistant Director of Operations, Josh Fenton could join them in fifteen minutes to lead them through their inspection of his company. ...In A Hurry? Get Out Your WalletFrederick Gevalt “In God We Trust,” ‘cause we sure can’t trust the FAA.Frederick Gevalt Reward, Risk, and Fear – Aviation’s “Good, Bad, and Ugly”Frederick Gevalt NATA - “The Little Engine That Couldn’t.”Frederick Gevalt Sentient Goes On A Buying SpreeFrederick Gevalt Way Too Little, Way Too LateFrederick Gevalt Alkalay Speaks: TAG/AMI Is Just The First. All Charter Operators to Be Audited By End of ‘07Frederick Gevalt ...It Tolls For Thee."Frederick Gevalt Poaching – It’s Only Good for Eggs!Frederick Gevalt E Pluribus, Unum?Frederick Gevalt Aviation’s Agencies – Could Our Founders Have Ever Imagined?!Frederick Gevalt Adams and Jefferson would have done anything to have prevented today’s federal agencies. ... Pleaze – No Sleaze!
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