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News from ALPA International |
February 28, 2012 |
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ALPA Statement on FAA-Proposed Minimum Pilot Quals |
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Capt. Lee Moak,
president of the Air
Line Pilots Association,
Int’l, released the
following statement
regarding the Federal
Aviation
Administration’s (FAA)
notice of proposed
rulemaking on minimum
qualification standards
for airline first
officers.
“The Federal Aviation
Administration’s (FAA)
notice of proposed
rulemaking regarding
minimum qualification
standards for airline
first officers is the
culmination of many
months of intensive work
by the FAA and industry
stakeholders.
“The First Officer
Qualifications Aviation
Rulemaking Committee
(ARC) was established as
a result of the Airline
Safety and Federal
Aviation Administration
Extension Act of 2010,
which directed the FAA
to modify the flight
experience and training
necessary for an
individual to become an
airline first officer.
ALPA served on the ARC
with the goal of
ensuring that air
transportation achieves
the highest possible
level of safety.
Read more.
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New ALPA Reps Gain Skills at Leadership Training Conference |
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Nearly 100 pilots
from 25 ALPA airlines
are in Reston, Va., this
week for the
Association’s Leadership
Training Conference,
ALPA’s training ground
for newly elected local
council representatives
and MEC officers. The
LTC is held each year,
usually in February to
coincide with the
beginning of many new
elected representatives’
terms. This year’s
meeting agenda has been
retooled to provide an
even stronger focus on
giving ALPA leaders the
personal and
professional tools
they’ll need to succeed.
The four-day
conference is one of the
most important things
the Association does,
said ALPA president
Capt. Lee Moak. “Being
an ALPA rep is tough.
It’s not flag football,
it’s full-contact
without pads,” said Moak,
a former DAL LEC rep and
MEC chairman. “You are
going to be getting
calls in the middle of
the night. You are going
to be handling
grievances. You are now
going to be making
decisions—decisions that
some people won’t like.”
The key to being an
effective union leader
is to make full use of
ALPA’s staff resources
and rely on fellow
pilots for support, he
said. “We are going to
make sure you’re
successful. Everybody in
this room needs to look
around and see that the
guy next to you is here
to help you. We have
your back, we have your
six,” Moak said.
Read more.
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Stay connected with your
union, your profession,
and your industry by
reading Air Line
Pilot magazine and
watching monthly
episodes of The
FlightDeck.
Read about the
details of the recent
FAA reauthorization
legislation on page 18 of the
March issue of Air Line Pilot magazine.
On the 12th
installment
of
The
FlightDeck, find
out what you can do to
avoid deep vein
thrombosis.
Remember that both Air Line Pilot
and The FlightDeck
can also be accessed
from the members-only
portion of the ALPA
website at
www.alpa.org.
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Help the Flight Safety Foundation |
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The
Flight Safety Foundation
(FSF) is requesting
pilot input in a study
under way to explore the
relationship between
unstable approaches and
go-arounds. Recent
studies have reaffirmed
that more than 30
percent of all aviation
accidents are runway
excursions. Many of
these excursions result
from unstable
approaches. Although
some unstable approaches
result in “go-arounds,”
for a variety of reasons
others continue to land.
To find strategies to
reduce the associated
runway excursion rate,
FSF has launched a
project to research and
analyze issues
associated with unstable
approach and go-around
decision making. The
survey should take
approximately 25 minutes
and will assist the
Flight Safety Foundation
in better understanding
decision making during
unstable approaches at
or below stable approach
height.
FSF plans to publish
the results of the
project in several
public forums, which you
will be able to review
in the future. Please
understand that no
personally identifying
information is
collected—survey
respondents are
completely anonymous.
Please also note that
you cannot save your
progress during this
survey; you must
complete the survey in
one sitting.
Take the survey.
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• According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, China is luring U.S. pilots tired of the
14-year wait for the captain’s seat.
Read more.
• The Boston Globe reports that civilian cousins of military drones are
in domestic demand.
Read more.
• According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the feds are getting
tougher on cockpit laser illumination cases.
Read more.
• The Independent (from the United Kingdom) reports the United States
will inflame the long-running trade dispute between aircraft manufacturers
Boeing and Airbus by demanding that the World Trade Organization impose annual
sanctions against the EU.
Read more.
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On February 17, 2002, the new U.S. Transportation Security Administration
assumed security for all airports in the United States.
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Feedback & E-mail Address Changes |
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www.alpa.org and logging
in. Go to “My ALPA” in the menu at the top of the page, and from there, you’ll be
instructed how to make the necessary changes. If you don’t have access to the
members-only section of
www.alpa.org, you can
e-mail your requests by sending them to
membership@alpa.org. Be sure to include your member number or enough other
information so that we can identify you in the membership database, and tell us
what information needs to be updated. Please note that it is not sufficient
just to notify your LEC or MEC of these changes—you should register them with
the ALPA Membership Department in Herndon. Can’t remember your member number
or how to log in? Need information about your ALPA insurance programs? These and
other questions about ALPA services can be answered by contacting
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