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This person was a previous FAA inspector who caused a large number of pilots to submit for a retest and he gets a $200 fine?


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Former FAA aviation safety inspector sentenced for bribery, falsifying airman certificate

Former FAA aviation safety inspector Michael Puehler was sentenced after being found guilty of falsifying airman certification records and rating applications in exchange for payment. The investigation led to two notices from the FAA, requesting the reexamination of hundreds of pilots from...
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Clip4 said:
This person was a previous FAA inspector who caused a large number of pilots to submit for a retest and he gets a $200 fine?


www.globalair.com

Former FAA aviation safety inspector sentenced for bribery, falsifying airman certificate

Former FAA aviation safety inspector Michael Puehler was sentenced after being found guilty of falsifying airman certification records and rating applications in exchange for payment. The investigation led to two notices from the FAA, requesting the reexamination of hundreds of pilots from...
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Either he had a really good lawyer, and/or in exchange for cooperating he was given a reduced sentence. There's a lot of information missing here.
 
Doc Holliday said:
Either he had a really good lawyer, and/or in exchange for cooperating he was given a reduced sentence. There's a lot of information missing here.
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Good Lawyer is my bet. Keep all the pay while doing substandard work, keep all the bribes. But the FAA forces 11yrs worth of check rides to be reevaluated at the individual pilots expense because the Gov't did not do their job. It will be interesting to see the how many pilots are affected and the number of pilots that don't need to be checked because they took another ride for an advanced rating from a different examiner or DPE.

There is precedence for this. Many pilots in the southwest had to reaccomplish check rides after it was determined the DPE was not doing "complete rides". That was one of the factors that now limit DPEs to 2 check rides per day.
 
BillTIZ said:
There is precedence for this.
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Same thing happened on the maintenance side with several DMEs who were selling certificates. And we were talking 100s of mechanics who had to retest. But you have to keep in mind a lot of the people used these Designees because of what "service" they were providing. The problem was how do you know who tested legitimately or not.
 
They could have at least ordered restitution of some part of the fees that people paid and/or the fees they will have to pay to legitimize their certificates/ratings.
 
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