Georgetown, DE
- Aircraft Year
- 1975
- Aircraft Type
- 112-390
- Reg Number
- N1410J
- Serial Number
- 410
Is the Witch dead???
The FAA is officially disbanding the regionally structured Flight Standards Service (FSS) on Monday. As of Aug. 21, the FSS will be based around four functional areas—Air Carrier Safety Assurance, General Aviation Safety Assurance, Safety Standard, and Foundational Business. According to the Information for Operators briefing the FAA released on the reorganization earlier this month, the initiative “is a service-wide effort to transform the culture of Flight Standards into an organization that facilitates critical thinking, interdependence and consistency to better serve aviation safety.”
The FAA promises “the reorganized Flight Standards will be a streamlined structure that will allow for faster response times, single points of accountability in each functional organization, greater agility and consistency.” Under the old regional system, FAA regulations were sometimes interpreted somewhat differently from district to district. Members of the public trying to find their new point of contact should reference the Flight Standard Information Management System (FSIMS), which now hosts the FSS Organizational Chart, FAQs and an FSS Responsibilities Quick Reference Sheet. Although the regional Flight Standards offices will no longer be providing regulatory guidance, local FAA offices will remain in place to perform non-policy-making functions previously handled by the FSDO.
The FAA is officially disbanding the regionally structured Flight Standards Service (FSS) on Monday. As of Aug. 21, the FSS will be based around four functional areas—Air Carrier Safety Assurance, General Aviation Safety Assurance, Safety Standard, and Foundational Business. According to the Information for Operators briefing the FAA released on the reorganization earlier this month, the initiative “is a service-wide effort to transform the culture of Flight Standards into an organization that facilitates critical thinking, interdependence and consistency to better serve aviation safety.”
The FAA promises “the reorganized Flight Standards will be a streamlined structure that will allow for faster response times, single points of accountability in each functional organization, greater agility and consistency.” Under the old regional system, FAA regulations were sometimes interpreted somewhat differently from district to district. Members of the public trying to find their new point of contact should reference the Flight Standard Information Management System (FSIMS), which now hosts the FSS Organizational Chart, FAQs and an FSS Responsibilities Quick Reference Sheet. Although the regional Flight Standards offices will no longer be providing regulatory guidance, local FAA offices will remain in place to perform non-policy-making functions previously handled by the FSDO.
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