This Has To Be A Joke JD Vance Confronts Biden Official Over FAA’s ‘Inclusive Language’ Guidance. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Capitol Hill Feb 15, 2023
Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance on Wednesday confronted acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) commissioner Billy Nolen over “inclusive language” guidance.
The FAA’s 2023 budget includes focuses on “racial equity” while an advisory group for the agency proposed back in 2021 that the agency replace works like “airman” and “cockpit”
with gender-neutral terms like “aviator” and “flight deck.”
Vance grilled Nolen about the potential changes. Did the FAA issue 176 page guidance document changing notices to airmen to notices of air mission in December of 2021?
solicitation published in the Federal Register Deputy Administrator Mims stated that when we use terms like ‘Airmen’ or unmanned aircraft, Vance said as he began to chuckle.
“I’m sorry I’m laughing because this has to be a joke, we’re sending a message that only men belong in the Aerospace Community, do you agree with that?”
Nolen said the language change is a good thing to do but that nothing will detract from the safety of the airspace.

свернуть