Since the advent of its compliance philosophy in 2015, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has implemented 15,000 compliance actions — corrective actions rather than penalties — involving aircraft operators, maintenance organizations and other entities subject to FAA oversight, John Duncan, director of the FAA Flight Standards Service (FSS), says.
Those actions represent “problems fixed, risks mitigated and a safer NAS [National Airspace System],” Duncan said in a keynote speech marking the opening session of the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) 2018, meeting in mid-April in Orlando, Florida, U.S.
During the same 30-month period, the number of enforcement actions has decreased by 76 percent, he said, adding that enforcement actions now are generally used against those who are unable or unwilling to comply, “and we have a capability to do that in a much more aggressive way.”
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