Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"I think this story is very important and should be questioned and told. The FAA must, in no way, take an anonymous phone call and turn it into an inquisition on the pilot. A simple inquiry would have been the best first contact. The pilot is guilty until proven innocent, and as the letter clearly states, it's ALL on the accused pilot. And I take that as the FAA can do anything they please to go as far as they please to make you prove anything they demand, along with suspending or revoking a pilot's medical until they feel the matter is resolved, AND demanding private medical records that have no bearing on the complaint. All this from an anonymous phone call. But this issue is not about me it's about the FAA's arrogant practices and violation of citizens rights."

Source: "Pilot X" -- a pilot currently being victimized by an anonymous and unsubstantiated complaint to the FAA Hotline alleging an unsubstantiated medical ailment that reportedly did not show up in his most recent FAA medical exam. 

FMI: www.faa.gov