Liberty vs. Libertarianism

[DBTrek]

I too have contracted with them, and it had everything to do with how the guys in the tower managed traffic.

Your experience was probably better than mine. I worked at the HQ building where NOBODY worked in a tower, but we had almost a thousand employees doing FISA requests, Civil Rights reviews, real estate and planning, and building operations. When congress failed to pass a budget in time one year and all the “non-essential” FAA employees were told to stay home guess how many folks showed up the next day.

If your guess is “none” then you’re on the right track.

A thousand FAA workers that even the government knows aren’t essential to FAA operations. And that’s just in the one location I worked, not nationwide. That’s my experience.

[Speaker to Animals]

The FAA is a really big agency. They deal with a lot of issues from air traffic control to flight safety to maintenance standards. I am sure there exist lots and lots of lazy people there, as there are in any government bureaucracy, but I promise you that FreedomSkies would result in planes crashing everywhere.

The aviation industry is relatively safe *because* of the high standards. You should see how they run shit overseas. Planes crash all the time in the third world.

[heydaralon]

The FAA is a really big agency. They deal with a lot of issues from air traffic control to flight safety to maintenance standards. I am sure there exist lots and lots of lazy people there, as there are in any government bureaucracy, but I promise you that FreedomSkies would result in planes crashing everywhere.

The aviation industry is relatively safe *because* of the high standards. You should see how they run shit overseas. Planes crash all the time in the third world.

In a truly free market, planes would not crash, because customers would be able to change airlines midflight if they saw that their plane was about to collide with another. They would have the choice not die in a collision, because as rational consumers, who would want to be cooked alive mid air? Not me, that's for sure, especially when they could just hop on another plane that is also in the air.

[de officiis]

Ya'll ever been at a social gathering where you make a sort of off color joke, and nobody really gets it, so you double, and then triple down on it in the hope that it will eventually land?

All my jokes land; it's just sometimes I forget to put the wheels down, or I get the wrong airport. (Real experience. Lost my Pilot's license because of it.)

I knew a guy who did that. Ruined a perfectly good airplane.