Sometimes I wish the FAA would do MORE to weed out these people- but they seem mostly concerned with paperwork errors and record keeping ( BUREAUCRATS!)They only get heavily involved when the incident makes it on the 6 o'clock news.
Ok Brian, Lemme tell ya a lil story. While I was living in Tonopah Nevada, I was the Manager of the Weather Observation Station located at the airport. I fired an employee. A few days after that I had this FAA official on the phone to the FBO asking if they had knowledge of me. Saying they were investigating an "Anonymous" complaint filed against me. The individual filing the complaint said I was flying an unregistered aircraft. Without a pilots license. I was flying recklously while consuming alcohol. Throwing my beer cans out the window at individuals on the ground.
I just happened to be at the FBO at the time. The owner that answered the phone just told the investigator that he might as well as me himself, for I was sitting right there. You should of heard that investigator stammer as I took the phone. After collecting himself, the told me the allegations. And that he already established that I owned a registered aircraft and was indeed a registered pilot. So, as far as the rest of the allegations, he thought them malicious and would close this case immediately.
Do you know that upwards to a year after that I would receive phone calls from aquaintenances around town asking why some individual from the FAA was asking about me and my aircraft?
