g from certification of seven forty sevens to certification of a recreational pilot. The FAA is like the DMV of the skies. Their main responsibility is to ensure the safety of all aviators and if their safety is compromised to see why it happened and try to prevent it from happening again. The FAA has the authority to suspend a license from a pilot or even ground an airplane from flying. It says in the FAR that the pilot in command of the airplane has the last say whether the airplane flies or not. If the airplane is not airworthy and the pilot decides to fly it anyway, the pilot will suffer the consequences if the FAA finds out about it. All rules and regulations the FAA makes are meant to be followed nationwide. For example pilot who fly under IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) follow federal airways. Federal airways are airways used to Aleve traffic and know where the airplane is. No the airways are made and enforced by the FAA. The FAA also has to maintain these airways by making sure the VORs (Very High Frequency Omnirange Receiver) are working. Within the FAA there are different departments that handle all these matters, but the main head is the FAA. Besides the FAA there are department like the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) which for example would handle the JFK accident. They are in-charge of see the cause and way that the airplane crashed, or got into an accident. As you see many different people and agencies control aviation in many different ways. Even though we are only Pilots who steer the airplane, people seem to forget we handle millions of lives a day, usually more lives than a Doctor, so there are many reason to have so much control over the industry. Without this control and security the aviation industry would be chaos and people would refuse to fly. Now because of all the restriction and regulations, flying has become the safest method of travel. ...
