Hiring practice of FAA leaves a number of questions (2018)
theunion.com
theunion.com
The next year, Trump created his own diversity program there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/faa-dei-t... (https://archive.is/dDusb)
> “FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”
> Legislation introduced by Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) in 2016 to end the use of the Biographical Questionnaire, was signed into law as part of a larger bill that reauthorized the FAA through September 2017. The reauthorization passed by Congress included language to eliminate the discredited Biographical Questionnaire, however, according to the FAA’s own current website, the Biographical Questionnaire is still in use by the FAA today.
Abolished in theory, but apparently not in practice.
https://www.faa.gov/faq/faa-getting-rid-air-traffic-skills-b...