What's even more ironic is the FAA is pushing "neurodiversity" and in Drone Part 107 certification Promoting that people that are autistic or have ADHD can fly Drones. https://www.faa.gov/podcasts/the_air_up_there/neurodiversity-superpower
I don't know where to begin with this because its a lot easier to screw up flying a drone than an actual aircraft, I would know and drones can be much more destructive and cause just as much harm to individuals as large aircraft. How? fly a drone into a transformer, fly a drone into a windshield of a moving vehicle which can cause a chain reaction accident, fly a drone into another aircraft, or screw up programing a fleet of drones that fly over crowds where they collide with each other and fall onto the crowd.
FAA thinks this is fine saying claiming that autism and ADHD are a "superpower" and claim that this is "neurodiversity" which it a direct conflict with their medical division that favors cognitive segregation for attaining a medical to fly a real airplane.
Is the FAA admitting that nerodiverse autistic and ADHD drone pilots can hold a concentration and not cause accidents? Sure seems so. Drone pilots need to pass a written test similar to private pilots of actual aircraft. They need to know what most of the different airspaces are as well as well as how to read a map that shows restricted and prohibited areas are. How to read aviation weather charts and check for NOTAMs.
So yeah if the FAA is granting nerodiverse people Part 107 drone certification, then why the cognitive profiling with regards to actual aircraft certification, especially since the real judges are the CFIs that do the signoffs for the checkrides and the DPEs that determine if a pilot can actually pass one. I guess the FAA is having a huge cognitive disconnect on this one.
Notice the video is now labeled as private, this was the direct link. https://youtu.be/lPrZ6UyROI4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPrZ6UyROI4 and that's not the only coverup from the FAA. A large section of the youtube page had the videos made private back in Jan 8 2025, before the end of the Biden Administration. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5vHkqHi51DRCzSToQSAA9DKOzZl-HYiq We tried to recover the video using the wayback machine and the "video" is there with no audio. https://web.archive.org/web/20241130101234/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPrZ6UyROI4
The FAA deleted the entire page on the agencies website deleted regarding this subject.
Going through our own archives we were able to retrieve an email from November 8, 2023 that posted the links to the now deleted FAA website that had links to the youtube video. the email also had links to the episode on Google Podcast which is now deleted as well as Apple Podcast that is now deleted.
typing "neurodiversity" into the FAA website search window still leads to page of the "FAA Office of Civil Rights" which pushes equity. https://www.faa.gov/media/72456