Expecting the FAA to sort out air transport problems?
Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
You might also be expecting gold coins to rain from the sky, but that’s not going to happen either.
Ultimately, there’s no reason to expect the FAA to be innovative. It doesn’t face any market pressure and there’s no risk of it going under if it doesn’t adapt.
I’m guessing we’ll see a proposal to ban certain aircraft before we get the FAA actually attempting to implement some of the many creative solutions they’re so far ignoring.
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You know, while working for the British civil service, I discovered another reason for why innovation is so difficult in the public sector:
whenever someone comes up with a good idea, which requires (more) work, someone from above will just make it part of that person’s job description without raising his or her salary - effectively punishing you for being innovative.
So when I suggested new things, ways of working more effectively long-term, people were at loss over how I dared - until they learned that I was a consultant…
But of course, in this kind of environment, this type of thinking is so ingrained that they will try to ‘punish’ consultants for innovation as well, rather than award them. One explanation for this is of course how they’re all forced to work in accordance with the whimsical budgets and objectives of politicians who think they can force grass to grow without water just by deciding that it should be so.
The result: a much more inhumane, exploitative system than what the very same politicians frequently blame the private sector for instituting and upholding…
This is also of interest: http://smartskies.org/
I read about this on a recent flight, but I haven’t really dug into it yet.