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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I wouldn't look forward to my government's idea of "consensus," either. U.S. laws are pretty much run by industry these days, too... especially when the public has not weighed in on a subject, nor convinced its leaders that they must listen to the public over the industries.
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As a pilot I have read many "notice of rule change proposal". The FAA publishes them before they make changes to the regulations. Usually the AOPA puts an article and analysis of each proposal and their opinion of it and encourages pilots to submit there comments. Many proposals have been modified due to this involvement by AOPA and the pilot community.
BTW: The notices and comment time are required by the FAA's charter.
It would be nice if there were similar community review of the bills that congress is considering. I wonder if people would get involved. This would gives us a truly "representative" democracy.
BOb