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How One Crew Landed An Airplane With Smoke in The Cockpit Superior Airmanship Details Inside Page 20 UPDatES ON Asiana Flight 214, FFDO Funding, & NextGen Pages 9, 13, and 30 Follow us on Twitter August 2013 Air Line Pilot 1 PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PRINTED IN @wearealpa August 2013 • Volume 82, Number 8 17 About the Cover This photo was taken at sunset at Jackson Hole Airport, Wyoming, by F/O James T. Duke (United). Download a QR reader to your 19 smartphone, scan the code, and read the magazine. COMMENTARY Air Line Pilot (ISSN 0002-242X) is pub lished monthly by the Air Line Pilots Association, 4 take Note Inter national, affiliated with AFL-CIO, CLC. Editorial Offices: 535 Herndon Dogged About the Facts 30 Parkway, PO Box 1169, Herndon, VA 20172-1169. Telephone: 703-481-4460. 5 Aviation matters 24 turkish Airlines’ 30 AlPA toolbox Fax: 703-464-2114. Copyright © 2013—Air ALPA, NATCA Co-Host Line Pilots Association, Inter national, all No Shortcuts Global Ambitions rights reserved. 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Speculation as to how The 1,500-Hour Rule— the Kerry blue terrier eventually ended up in Ireland includes the It’s official.Find out if the new rule dog swimming to shore from a Russian ship wrecked in Tralee Bay. Another legend affects you. (www.alpa.org/1500rule) has it landing in Ireland when a terrible Page 23 storm forced the Spanish Armada off course in 1588. While the different versions of what some will believe as fact certainly make What you might not know about for interesting storytelling and discussion, there really is no way of knowing the true origin without all the facts, which is certainly acceptable when determining . the nature of a breed Turkey Page 24 of dog—doggedly determined or incredibly lucky. Not having all the OMMONS C facts and drawing Did your favorite eatery conclusions, however, is IKIMEDIA W completely unacceptable make “The Landing”? when it comes to aviation. Indeed, the Page 37 “magic of flight” is anything but, as it is based on science, precision, and data. Making certain that all the data are thor- oughly considered before taking action is a bedrock principle of our union’s work. In Suffer from allergies? FAA-Approved Meds: coverage of ALPA’s 59th Air Safety Forum, Nasal sprays: ase, Vancenase, you will see that our safety, security, and Steroid—Becon ide, Nasacort, Nasonex, Find out what meds you can Flonase, Nasal Nasarel, and Rhinocort pilot assistance efforts have at their core Nonsteriod—Cromolyn Nonsedating antihistamines: take and still be legal to fly. solid data and sound science. Allegra, Clarinex, and Claritin The same holds true for ALPA’s com- Allergy desensitiztion injections Page 34 munications. While others may rush to speculate, ALPA reserves judgment until we have all the facts. To that end, it’s more important than ever that you get the Did your airline make the facts about your union directly from your union. Follow ALPA on Twitter, like us on FaceBook, join our live webcasts, and read Top 100 Airlines poll? the FastRead—there are myriad ways to Page 8 get the facts about our union’s work to advance the airline piloting profession on our members’ behalf. Marie Schwartz Director, ALPA Communications [email protected] 4 Air Line Pilot August 2013 AviationMatters No shortcuts particular process may evolve, achievement results only from “ here is no shortcut to achievement,” said the Ameri- resolute focus on the single objective of progress. can scientist and inventor George Washington Carver. In this issue, you will read about new FAA pilot qualifications T“Life requires thorough preparation—veneer is’t worth that increase the minimum requirements for pilots to serve anything.” Unfortunately, ALPA recently witnessed a proven as first officers and reflect many of ALPA’s recommendations accident-investigation process cut short to create the veneer of because of our participation in the FAA’s Aviation Rulemaking cause rather than the achievement of Committee (ARC) process. ALPA took no shortcuts in our role safety. More encouragingly, ALPA also on the ARC; the concerns of our pilots and the work of our has witnessed the achievement made union show throughout the new regulation. possible when a thorough plan of action If you’ve visited ALPA’s “What the 1,500-hour rule means to is followed to its completion. you” website (www.alpa.org/1500rule), you already know that After learning of the Asiana Flight ALPA made clear during the ARC process that not all training 214 accident, I am certain every ALPA is equal. We pressed hard for the “restricted ATP” that allows member felt as I did the sting of the applicants to be eligible with varying amounts of flight time tragedy and a new sense of determina- experience. In other evidence of ALPA’s perseverance, the new tion to prevent such an accident from regulation requires that first officers be type-rated in the air- happening again. ALPA volunteers were immediately on site craft they fly, and the FAA has maintained the current medical to support the crew and passengers and provide all possible certification requirement for most airline first officers. assistance to the NTSB investigation. The coverage of ALPA’s 59th Air Safety Forum in this issue To ALPA’s alarm, rather than embarking on a thorough field reveals many more ways ALPA pilots don’t tolerate shortcuts investigation focused on finding every factor involved in the on safety. accident, the NTSB almost immediately, and highly unchar- Likewise, ALPA is pursuing real achievement in eliminating acteristically, began releasing the technical data it discovered pilot fatigue by working in every way possible to bring cargo incrementally and without context. Predictably, the individual pilots under the FAA’s new fatigue rule and by engaging in pieces of information invited uninformed interpretation by Transport Canada’s process to make the final recommenda- everyone from drive-time DJs to flight simulator game enthu- tions for drafting new science-based rules for Canadian siasts. The resulting frenzy of speculation has distracted—and airline pilots. we may find it will have detracted—from thorough accident Our union’s opposition to shortcuts is no less real in the investigation, which the agency is charged to perform. security arena. More than 2,000 ALPA members have voiced As the world’s largest nongovernmental aviation safety support for ALPA’s determination to continue, and to build on, organization, our union has worked during its eight decades the Federal Flight Deck Officer program as a critical component of history with the airlines and regulators to hone a proven of risk-based aviation security. and internationally recognized investigatory process that holds Similarly, in collective bargaining, ALPA’s Alaska Airlines paramount preventing future accidents. The result has helped pilots followed a thorough negotiating process that resulted in to make air transportation in North America safe beyond geo- a new five-year contract that increases pay by nearly 20 percent political or historical compare. over the life of the agreement, contains job security and work ALPA calls on the NTSB to evaluate the necessary balance of rule improvements, and protects pilots’ retirement and insur- news media interaction and public disclosure that is essential ance benefits. to ensuring the quality of the investigative process. Prematurely That U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt admired George releasing information during the Asiana Flight 214 field inves- Washington Carver and sought his advice on agricultural mat- tigation created what is at best a dangerous distraction and at ters is no doubt attributable, at least in part, to Carver’s com- worst a presupposition that will undermine efforts to identify mitment to taking no shortcuts. all the contributing factors. Only through those efforts can the ALPA is here to make certain that our industry’s achieve- airline industry take the necessary steps to prevent future ac- ment is never cut short. cidents, which is the only true measure of safety achievement. In encouraging contrast, ALPA has also recently witnessed the real achievement that is possible with a time-tested and thorough approach to moving our industry forward.