# 8 Update October 2022

At this point, more than two years has elapsed since the unsteerable nosewheel incident that resulted in my nose gear collapse landing accident. As I have previously stated here several times; this was an unpredictable nose wheel steering malfunction, without detection or resolution and was very fortunate to have kept aircraft on the runway. With very few facts FAA immediately concluded my actions had caused the problem and began their investigation towards enforcement. They not only prejudged the cause but fabricated the "facts" to fit this narrative, twisting my words, misstating my actions and alleging statements by me that were never made. 

      Although the FAA's system of investigation supposedly provides for fair assessment, an appeals process and retraining instead of enforcement, I encountered the exact opposite, and was immediately second guessed by inexperienced FAA inspectors that never suggested any alternatives or offered anything other than criticism; even mocking me for actions that any other professional pilot would have done. Because they are allowed to operate, without oversight, and permitted to interpret the laws, (even when there aren't any), any internal FAA investigation  automatically goes their way along with any "appeals process", so despite being purported under a nonexistent doctrine of fairness; it becomes exactly the opposite when enforced by the unscrupulous employees of FAA.

While the FAA is chartered to insure safety in aviation, they are more interested in presenting the illusion of safety rather than making changes to enhance it and decide at the discretion of the FAA inspectors and FSDO chief based upon their personal biases of certain people, while showing favoritism towards the military and other Federal agencies.

For decades of training and testing applicants for various pilot certificates/ratings, I have upheld the standards mandated by regulations while the FAA has relaxed these standards and even provided instructions on circumventing some.