At a young age my father put a lawn mower engine in my pedal fire engine and put me in it for the first test drive. No brakes. No throttle. Flipped it on the first curve.
That was good as if I had not I would have been on a four lane highway.zz 
Posted on 03/12/2025 4:14:48 PM PDT by Morgana
A top 'DEI' activist is caught on voicemail allegedly offering minority air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam.
Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com.
'There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of and I am going to send that to you via email,' says Snow, an air traffic operations supervisor based out of New York.
'I am about 99.99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question.'
The inside info was made available in 2014 to African Americans, females, and other minority candidates – but whites were left out of the loop to 'minimize competition'.
Exactly how many applicants were able to capitalize on Snow's brazen offer to secure coveted controller jobs responsible for the safety of millions of fliers remains a mystery.
But one former NBCFAE member, Matthew Douglas, told DailyMail.com: 'I know several people who cheated and I know several people who are controlling planes as we speak.'
The voicemail comes to light as President Donald Trump vows to purge DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – from US aviation, among other federal agencies, in the wake of the deadly midair collision at Reagan National airport in January that claimed 67 lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
After you take and pass the written, the FAA examiner asks you every question you failed in your written DURING your check ride. They like to see how well you keep focused and on task in cockpit management while under stress.
“A simple solution would be to have all FAA personnel take the test again”
You really want a 20 year veteran take the application exam?
It indicates the willingness to cheat, and going forward, all is suspect.
“After you take and pass the written, the FAA examiner asks you every question you failed in your written DURING your check ride. They like to see how well you keep focused and on task in cockpit management while under stress.”
Not my examiner.
“It indicates the willingness to cheat,”
A willingness to cheat is worse than actually cheating?
The toughest exams I ever took was the Instrument Rating, and my Seaplane Rating. The Seaplane Rating, because it's all seat of the pants in the air, and sailing on the water. They put you out in the middle of the lake or river, no engines, and require you to sail the plane in the wind and dock it. The other thing that is very hard to master is not having any brakes! Seriously! Do you have any idea how important your brakes are in ground operations?
BTTT!!!!!.....
bttt
At a young age my father put a lawn mower engine in my pedal fire engine and put me in it for the first test drive. No brakes. No throttle. Flipped it on the first curve.
That was good as if I had not I would have been on a four lane highway.zz
“Yes, it is.”
A person that may cheat is worse than a person that does cheat?
It also implies planning and a co-conspirator. Now I suppose it’s hard to “spontaneously cheat”, but I suppose it could happen?
AVIATION PING!...................
To be fair, even though I unequivocal abhor any consideration of ANYTHING other than the ability of someone of any race, sex, or culture to handle the requirements of being an Air Traffic Controller, this does NOT sound to me that he is “sharing exam answers”.
I listened to the video on their website, and he sounds like he is telling them how to answer the questions on their application form, not what telling them how to answer questions, so I think the headline may be misleading (Daily Mail, so that may be deliberate).
I would be interested to hear from anyone else who watched the video...perhaps I missed it.
“...not telling them how to answer EXAM questions...” is what I meant to say.
I think it is unconstitutional to introduce race or sex into the application process, but I do see a difference between someone telling people how to fill out the application form vs. telling people what questions are on the exam, and how they should answer them.
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