Hello and welcome to episode 2009 of Avtoc. I am E Petchenick not here as always this week with Jason. Unfortunately, Jason started the day, we'll say marginal IFR conditions and

quickly deteriorated through

cat three conditions and so he is laid up in bed for the moment wishing him a very

speedy recovery but we've got a very different show this week because we thought we were going to do the show,

we thought we were going to be good to go,

but Jason was just not feeling up to it.

So I guess it's more of a newsy-ish show this week less analysis less banter or a hundred percent down on the banter

But I'm gonna do my best to cover some things that we thought were important enough to cover this week and then we'll

be back next week with your standard Av Talk show.

So this week was a not great week for nominees to the Federal Aviation Administration

Administership.

Philip Washington, who had been the Biden administration's nominee to lead the FAA

has not had a smooth confirmation process at all.

It took a very long time for him to come up for a vote and as they were almost set to vote on it

That didn't happen they announced another continuance of that and then Washington withdrew as the nominee to lead to the FAA.

Washington's the current CEO of Denver Airport, but this is his first aviation role.

He began there in 2021, and before that he was running municipal transit organizations

including the one also in Denver and Los Angeles. He's been tied to some corruption charges

via a search warrant in Los Angeles, which has made him a target

of a number of senators, both Republican and Democratic.

And there was a lot of concern given all of the discussion about aviation safety

and the FAA's extremely important role in that, that Washington wasn't necessarily

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