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...first responsibility for that safety rests in the hands of an organization that, for power and procedure, has no parallel in the U.S. It is the Federal Aviation Agency, and the man who rules it is a temperamental, mail-fisted, blunt-talking ex-fighter pilot named Elwood Ricardo Gonzalo Quesada...
...effort to promote air safety, FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada has done all but one of the following: a) Cracked down on infractions of rules by pilots...
That matter was resolved quickly enough. As FAA's "Pete" Quesada quickly pointed out, "the maneuvers required in pilot-proficiency checks place less stress and strain on the aircraft than that frequently encountered in routine and regularly scheduled operations." He was backed unanimously by airline officials. National Airlines' Vice President L. W. Dymond hurriedly said that the problem was a result of "local misunderstanding"; the pilots would indeed continue to take such tests-or else lose their licenses. Still, the telegram served to dramatize the pilots' union feud with General Quesada's administration: a feud based...
...Nonsense. Quesada, retired Air Force general officer and at 55 still a first-class flying man, took over his new job at a time when air-traffic control in the U.S. was a dangerous hodgepodge of uncoordinated civil and military operation and when the onrushing jet age was threatening to make deadly confusion on the nation's airways. He began by instituting a new program of cooperative military-civilian control of airspace, then set out to tighten civilian air-safety practices and bring them up to military standards. He sent his inspectors through a demanding Air Force check...
...says, "the FAA inspectors can fly these jets better than the man they're checking out." One out of four pilots, in fact, fails the FAA flight test on commercial jets first time around, and it was because the ratio was higher among pilots 55 and older that Quesada a few weeks ago made 60 the mandatory retirement age-and thus once more incurred the anger of most oldtime airline flyers, who had looked for retirement...