According to Aviation Week, Brian Delauter, the Transportation Security Administration’s general manager of its general aviation branch has announced he's quitting this month. Hopefully a trend, Although Brian was a square peg in a round hole who battled TSA beaurocracy and was widely thought of as a bright star in an otherwise dark gassy galaxy of ineptness. Since his replacement will need to be a cut above normal pizza box hirees, Pistole will probably place recruitment ads on milk cartons, right under the "Have you seen this child?" ads.
See, http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...&channel=busav
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I must be misunderstanding something there. You seem to saying you hope for more resignations from those who actively try to keep the TSA in check, though that wouldn't really make sense. That's not really a hopeful trend to my way of thinking.
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I must be misunderstanding something there. You seem to saying you hope for more resignations from those who actively try to keep the TSA in check, though that wouldn't really make sense. That's not really a hopeful trend to my way of thinking.
They may "try" to keep the TSA in check, but it may be of more value if more employees, management or others,get fed up and just quit, as Brian did.
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They may "try" to keep the TSA in check, but it may be of more value if more employees, management or others,get fed up and just quit, as Brian did.
TSA Bureaucracy has long been designed to push the competent folks out. They get replaced with folks that have little interest in excellence or true risk management. While it's true for DHS in general, it's particularly true for TSA.
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[...]but it may be of more value if more employees, management or others,get fed up and just quit [...].
Depends on what the resignees go on to do and whether their successors will resist their superior securitocrats with the same vigor. I'm not optimistic.
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Depends on what the resignees go on to do and whether their successors will resist their superior securitocrats with the same vigor. I'm not optimistic.
Brian is going back to Nashville to work in "private" aviation security. He may be able to really screw with them from the outside, knowing, as he does, where the skeletons are.
Now if we could just get 20-25,000 TSOs to follow him out the door.
Brian is going back to Nashville to work in "private" aviation security. He may be able to really screw with them from the outside, knowing, as he does, where the skeletons are.
Now if we could just get 20-25,000 TSOs to follow him out the door.
Let's hope that's the case. Let's hope he's not leaving because TSA is planning a massive new project to really take GA under the TSA wing. I can see why no GA manager who generally cared about GA would want to be part of any sweeping new TSA initiative aimed at GA.
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Depends on what the resignees go on to do and whether their successors will resist their superior securitocrats with the same vigor. I'm not optimistic.
As I recall, there's a term for it: "(something) floats"
TSA Bureaucracy has long been designed to push the competent folks out. They get replaced with folks that have little interest in excellence or true risk management. While it's true for DHS in general, it's particularly true for TSA.
While DHS has an incredibly weak management team, TSA makes them look like Einsteins. The only thing that will improve that bunch is a wholesale firing.
They get replaced with folks that have little interest in excellence or true risk management.
No interest in excellence or true risk management because they have no other marketable skills, and know that the TSA is their absolute last resort before going on welfare.
This is why they're so good at following management mandates without question - they're terrified of losing the only job they've been able to get.
Depends on what the resignees go on to do and whether their successors will resist their superior securitocrats with the same vigor. I'm not optimistic.
Neither am I. Brian has been with them about 2 years and has been highly successful in keeping them in check on a number of fronts. His loss will be noticed throughout aviation.
He was a key part of the LASP re-write that TSA botched so badly before he came on board and failed the first go around, and did a lot of the behind the scenes work on the revised NPRM. Whether they keep his work remains to be seen since it has not been published, yet.
He also kept the sucuritocrats [I like that] in check in a number of other ways. He was nearly singlehandedly responsible for improving business aviation access to DCA and the "DC Three" airports, despite overwhelming barriers. My guess is he knew what he was up against and did his best, and cut out when he either had to or felt he could do no further good against the them.
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Let's hope he's not leaving because TSA is planning a massive new project to really take GA under the TSA wing. I can see why no GA manager who generally cared about GA would want to be part of any sweeping new TSA initiative aimed at GA.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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My guess is he knew what he was up against and did his best, and cut out when he either had to or felt he could do no further good against the them.
Even for hardy souls, two years is a very long time resisting the encroaching securitocracy.
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