The FAA is losing its credibility if Congress has to constantly step in to fix things the FAA should have dealt with itself. FAA wouldn’t reform medicals, Congress imposes BasicMed. FAA wants to redefine instruction and create a new useless bureaucracy, Congress is intervening. The FAA won’t clean its own house, so we have a stream of Pilot Bill of Rights.
When are we going to get an FAA administrator who actual DOES something positive and moves the agency forward instead of backward?
If we never get that, then Congress will become the defacto FAA administrator and that position will be basically irrelevant.
It’s time to get more done this way: expand BasciMed to all instances where a 3rd class medical is required, make getting approval for new autopilots in legacy aircraft easier, and so forth.