Says Basic Knowledge Of Aviation Should Be A Requirement For Working At The Agency

ANN April 1 Special Edition (Parody)

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would require every employee of the FAA to take a basic ground school course.

“People need to know about the industry that they’re supposed to be regulating, that just makes sense,” President Trump said at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office. “I mean really, how can these people write regulations when they don’t know how an airplane flies?”

The executive order would change the hiring requirement for FAA employees to give preference to anyone who has already completed such a course, or holds a pilot certificate.

Two giants in the flight training industry, Sporty’s Pilot Shop and King Schools, have already begun to develop special courses for government employees written in “governmentese”. “Federal employees speak their own language,” said King Schools co-owner John King. “So we’re working on a curriculum that would be incomprehensible to most people, but that a government worker will find easy to understand.”

Sporty’s has proposed taking their course to the employees where they work. “There are FAA employees scattered all over the country,” said Sporty’s Academy president Eric Radtke. “We’ve proposed a series of seminars at various locations nationwide so that these folks can become better versed in aviation … and keep their jobs.”

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta was unavailable for comment.

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