ABSTRACT
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) assigns Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASIs) from three specialties, namely, Operations, Maintenance, and Avionics to each operator. Inspectors oversee the carrier's entire system, visit locations where they operate, and review and approve their policies and procedures. These reviews include, but are not limited to, training, maintenance programs, content and presentation of instructions, check lists, routes, dispatch, scheduling, maintenance control, weight and balance programs, and anything else that an operator would need to safely operate. The ASIs often come from the industry, where they already have been exposed to the aviation skill sets that the FAA requires. The ethics rules require that we annually sign and submit for review a financial disclosure report. The ASI who had oversight responsibility for the school was enticed to work for it. An ASI who has a good professional relationship with the director can be effective, and the parties can agree to disagree if they have to.
