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August 2017 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Air » Our Union page 5 » The Landing page 37 » ALPA@Work page 34 Line ALPA Members Earn Highest Honors for Safety, Security & PilOt page 28 Pilot Assistance Official Journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, International AIR SAFETY AWARD Capt. Charles Hogeman United AVIATION SECURITY AWARD F/O Preston Greene FedEx Express PILOT ASSISTANCE AWARD Capt. John Rosenberg Delta ALPA Continues to Push for No Rollbacks on Safety page 8 Follow us on Twitter PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. @wearealpa Unlimited ATM fee rebates. Worldwide access. Now ALPA members can stay in charge of their money while traveling or at home with a feature- packed checking account linked to a Schwab One® brokerage account. 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Brokerage products, including the Schwab One brokerage account, are offered by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Member SIPC. Deposit and lending products and services, including the Schwab Bank High Yield Investor Savings® account, are offered by Charles Schwab Bank, Member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender. ©2016 Charles Schwab Bank. All rights reserved. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. CC0411506 (0116-C4RD) ADP80654-03 (03/16) 00160788 AUGUST2017CONTENTS VOLUME 86, NUMBER 6 August 2017 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: 28 Air » Our Union page 5 » The Landing page 37 » ALPA@Work page 34 Line ALPA Members Earn Highest Honors for Safety, Security & PilOt page 28 Pilot Assistance Official Journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, International AIR SAFETY AWARD Capt. Charles Hogeman United AVIATION SECURITY AWARD F/O Preston Greene FedEx Express PILOT ASSISTANCE AWARD Capt. John Rosenberg Delta ALPA Continues to Push for No Rollbacks on Safety page 8 Follow us on Twitter PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. @wearealpa ABOUT THE COVER Celebrating pilot excellence: from left, Capt. John Rosen- berg (Delta), Pilot Assistance Award winner; F/O Preston Greene (FedEx Express), Aviation Security Award winner; and Capt. Charles Hogeman (United), Air Safety Award winner. COMMENTARY DEPARTMENTS Photo by Chris Weaver 5 OUR UNION 8 PREFLIGHT 35 OUR STORIES Air Line Pilot (ISSN 0002-242X) is pub lished First Flight Experience Exploring Aviation’s History monthly except for combined January/Feb- 34 ALPA@WORK ruary and June/July issues by the Air Line Courses Help Start Pilot Pilots Association, Inter national, affiliated 6 WEIGHING IN 36 HEALTH WATCH with AFL-CIO, CLC. Editorial Offices: 535 Air Safety Forum: Volunteers on Their ASO Herndon Parkway, Herndon, VA 20170. Can You Hear Me Now? Telephone: 703-481-4460. Fax: 703- Safeguarding Our Industry Journey 464-2114. 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PARTISAN AGENDA IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 35 21 SAFEGUARDING AIR TRANSPORTATION AT THE 63RD AIR SAFETY FORUM 28 ALPA HONORS 18 ITS OWN DURING AIR SAFETY FORUM AWARDS BANQUET 33 RESPONSIBILTY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND CREDIBILITY August 2017 Air Line Pilot » 3 Air LineBeyond Pilot Feature Article the » TITLE Page HERE Look for these icons throughout the magazine to get access to even more information, including additional content, videos, and audio clips—or to get feedback on a question. Read More Web Address Video Link Audio Link E-mail Address Don’t sit back and watch your career melt away. Back the PAC. Photo: Getty Images Disclaimer: The descriptions of the Air Line Pilots Association PAC are not a solicitation to contribute to the PAC. Only ALPA members, ALPA executives, senior administrative and professional staff personnel, and their immediate alpa pac family members living in the same household are eligible to contribute to ALPA-PAC. ALPA-PAC maintains and enforces a policy of refusing to accept contributions from any other source. ALPA members may learn more about ALPA-PAC and about contributing to ALPA-PAC by entering the members-only portion of www.alpa.org. www.alpapac.org 4 » Air Line Pilot August 2017 4885 ALPA-PAC Mag ad v2 Final.indd 1 7/20/2017 3:19:13 PM OurUnion First Flight Experience hen engineer and mathematician Otto prehensive, significant, and impactful regulatory Lilienthal, known as the flying man, advancement since the one level of safety initia- W took to the sky in a glider in 1891, it tive in the mid-1990s. would change the human experience. He was It’s clear that the action of Congress in 2010, able to exert some control of flight while cover- and the resulting FAA actions in 2013, have con- ing distances of up to 800 feet. His history of tributed enormously to our current level of safety. flying gliders over a number of years helped him The proof of its success is in the numbers. While gain tremendous experience understanding the more than 1,100 people lost their lives in passen- mechanics of flight. Lilienthal’s experiences and ger airline aircraft accidents in Part 121 opera- success in gliding inspired the world—including tions in the two decades before Congress passed Orville and Wilbur Wright—to believe that, with the current pilot qualification requirements, not an aircraft of the right design, humans could one person has died in a U.S. Part 121 passenger master flight. airline accident since. Even in these first days of avia- Despite these facts, special tion, the importance of experience The interests are attempting an end run was clear. “One can get a proper zero U.S. around the safety regulations to insight into the practice of flying “ lower workforce costs and line their only by actual flying experiments,” passenger own pockets. ALPA won’t stand for it. observed Lilienthal. “The manner in Airline passengers want and deserve which we have to meet the irregu- airline safe air transportation across the larities of the wind, when soaring in accident- United States, including in rural and the air, can only be learnt by being smaller communities. in the air itself.” fatality ALPA’s “Keep Our Skies Safe” cam- In the airline piloting profession, record since paign is in full force across Capitol Hill no substitute exists for experience. and appearing on social media across A pilot learns and gathers informa- the law the nation. In just a few weeks, nearly tion about both the weather and the 20,000 pilots as well as passengers aircraft with his or her senses. It’s was passed and cargo shippers have taken a sometimes referred to as “flying by speaks for stand for safety by joining ALPA’s Call the seat of your pants,” and it means to Action.