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FAA's Flight Standards Service Reorganization

The FFS Initiative is a service-wide effort to transform the culture of Flight Standards into an organization that facilitates critical thinking, interdependence, and consistency to better serve aviation safety. One of the primary ways of accomplishing this change is to eliminate redundancies...