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People are always surprised when I tell them I want to defund the FAA. They have irreparably harmed a beloved hobby of mine for generations. The list is quite frankly endless.

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They're certainly done a lot of harm but also a lot of good. Regulations are written in blood.

Lives that would have been saved with innovative improvements are not accounted for.

Because everybody can just pull out a number for those lives out of their noses, while lives lost are pretty easy to quantify.

The same goes for root cause analysis behind those lives lost, clear cut for actual losses, fuzzy for hypothetical losses.

You’re arguing for a no-regulations free for all?

Not the OP, but we can probably do better than this:

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2011/06/16/revitalizing-th...

So, someone complained about some audit. Like almost wveryone else who went through whatever audit, myself included at time (I went through EASA audits, SOX audits, non-SOX accounting audits, customer audits). If people wouldn't complain, the audit would be to lax to begin with.

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