Chip Jones wrote:
"David Rind" wrote in message
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Newps wrote:

You ought to come here. We have pretty much made the MVA map
irrelavant. We have had the same guy, the SAME GUY, get three airplanes
below the MVA three times in the last 6 months. The investstigation
reveals that the aircraft was not within 2000/3 of the ground or any
obstacles and it goes away.

Um, this isn't the most reassuring post I've seen recently. Isn't there
something you can do about this? If we were hearing about some pilot who
was repeatedly putting others at risk, various people on the group would
be recommending dropping a dime on him.



See David, if he actually *has* a mid-air or runs someone into a mountain,
FAA will promote him into ATC Management, or else make him a "Quality
Assurance" staff specialist (where he gets to tell real controllers where
they made procedural mistakes). Until his promotion though, his fellow
controllers are stuck carrying him on the roster, and the pilots he serves
are stuck with his "service". After all, we have to run ATC like a
business, and he has certain employment rights. As long as we keep
publically saying "safety was never compromised", the company can't do a
thing...

Chip, ZTL

Chip --

This seems like a topic I'd be intereted in seeing Don Brown address in
one of his AVweb columns. Do you have any objection to my sending him a
copy of this thread?

-- David

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David Rind