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Air Line Pilot November 2017 Ourunion November 2017 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: » Our Union page 5 » Health Watch page 34 » Our Stories page 33 Official Journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, International PILOTS KNOW IT’S NOT ONLY ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE, BUT WHAT YOU CAN’T PAGE 36 Follow us on Twitter PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. @wearealpa Choose the insights you want, when you want them. Sign up for Schwab Investing Insights®. ALPA members now have complimentary access to Schwab Investing Insights, an email series customizable to the investing perspectives, research, and ideas you want to know. Schwab Investing Insights provides you with: • Perspectives on the markets • Trading ideas and strategies • Information on investing • Articles on saving and planning for retirement • Tax fundamentals • “The Personal Side of Money,” Q&A sessions with Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz Subscribe to Investing Insights today. Choose your topics. Choose how often you want to hear about them. 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Mgr. -- UP Fonts Charles Modern (Light, Regular, Bold, ET Condensed Regular, Condensed Graphics Christina Donth S Bold; True Type) CONTENT Job Type Litho Mech Scale 100% DETAILS Output Size None NOVEMBER2017CONTENTS VOLUME 86, NUMBER 9 November 2017 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: COMMENTARY 25 » Our Union page 5 » Health Watch page 34 » Our Stories page 33 5 OUR UNION Learning to Fly Official Journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, International 6 PILOT COMMENTARY PILOTS KNOW IT’S NOT ONLY ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE, Veterans Affairs Committee; BUT WHAT YOU CAN’T PAGE 36 Furloughed Pilots Support Program 7 PILOT COMMENTARY Standing Up to Management to Protect Pilots and Their Families Follow us on Twitter PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. @wearealpa 8 PILOT COMMENTARY P4P Says Thank You ABOUT THE COVER ALPA’s new branding FEATURES campaign—”Trained for Life”—focuses on reinforcing 20 ICE CRYSTALS the positive public image of INGESTION AND YOUR pilots, redefining the narra- AIRCRAFT’S ENGINES tive about airline safety, and increasing ALPA’s influence 23 EXECUTIVE BOARD DEPARTMENTS with decision-makers. CONDUCTS BUSINESS; 9 PREFLIGHT 33 OUR STORIES Air Line Pilot (ISSN 0002-242X) is pub lished WELCOMES NEW PILOT monthly except for combined January/ ExpressJet Pilot Rescues Area February and June/July issues by the Air GROUPS Line Pilots Association, Inter national, 9 Residents in the Wake of affiliated with AFL-CIO, CLC. Editorial 25 FLYING HEROES: ALPA Harvey Offices: 535 Herndon Parkway, Herndon, VA 20170. Telephone: 703-481-4460. Fax: PILOTS DELIVER AID TO 703-464-2114. Copyright © 2017—Air Line 34 HEALTH WATCH Pilots Association, Inter national, all rights HURRICANE-RAVAGED reserved. Publica tion in any form without Opioids and Your Readiness permission is prohibited. Air Line Pilot PUERTO RICO for Flight and the ALPA logo Reg. U.S. Pat. and T.M. Office. Federal I.D. 36-0710830. Periodicals 28 ALL IN THE FAMILY postage paid at Herndon, VA 20170 and 30 ALPA@WORK 36 THE LANDING additional offices. Negotiations Training Prepares “Trained for Life” Postmaster: Send address changes to Air Line Pilot, 535 Herndon Parkway, Herndon, Pilots for Contract Talks; Pilots VA 20170. Helping Pilots Save Their 38 WE ARE ALPA Canadian Publications Mail Agreement Lives, Families, Careers; FFD ALPA Resources and Contact #40620579 Committee Meets to Discuss Numbers Canada Post: Return undeliverables to P.O. Box 2601, 6915 Dixie Rd, Mississauga, ON Industry Challenges L4T 0A9. 20 34 November 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 This is the only aisle we care about. ALPA-PAC is the most bipartisan labor PAC in the country. 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A member service of Air Line Pilot. 4 » Air Line Pilot November 2017 OurUnion rides to the training required as new regulations Learning to Fly are put in place––such as the training to recog- nize and recover from upsets and stalls that was he late rocker Tom Petty is quoted by a required in the Airline Safety and FAA Extension biographer as saying he was inspired to write Act of 2010. T his song Learning to Fly after hearing a pilot The passage of the FAA Extension Act of 2010 remark that “learning to fly is easy, but coming drove the development of many new regulations down’s the hard part.” It’s true that an airline pilot’s that helped first officers to be better trained and ability to safely land an airplane––and conduct all more experienced. In the 20 years prior to this phases of flight––requires years of training. congressional action, more than 1,100 passengers ALPA members know well the continuous lost their lives in U.S. airline accidents. Since then, training that’s involved in an airline pilot career. that number has been reduced to zero. However, the traveling and shipping public as well Despite this progress, special interests sought as government officials, regulators, and lawmak- in this year’s FAA reauthorization process to ers may not fully understand the training require- overturn these first officer qualification rules so ments or their role in helping that they can increase their airline pilots to keep our skies profits. They failed because the safest in the world. To tell the story every ALPA member who To tell the story of what it of what it takes to walked the halls of Congress takes to learn and maintain “ or participated in our Call the skills needed to be an air- learn and maintain to Action helped our union line pilot, ALPA has launched keep flying safe. a new public-awareness cam- the skills needed to However, Congress did not paign to help remind industry be an airline pilot, reauthorize the FAA; law- influencers and the flying makers granted an extension public the ways in which ALPA has launched of the existing authorization airline pilots are “Trained for a new public- through March 30, 2018. As a Life.” The first phase of the result, the fight to maintain campaign, which features awareness campaign first officer training and radio, print, digital, and social to help remind qualifications will continue media elements (see page 36), through next spring. ALPA’s will augment our pilot and industry influencers Trained for Life campaign staff lobbying and traditional and the flying public will be a major asset as we and social media outreach to work to dispel profit-minded make clear why Washington, the ways in which spin and focus on the D.C., decision-makers should safety facts. support ALPA pilots’ positions airline pilots are Likewise, ALPA is in the on aviation safety. ‘Trained for Life.’ midst of a similar public- There are many new faces awareness push in Canada. affecting transportation policy in Washington, As a member” of the Safer Skies Coalition, our D.C. For example, President Trump has nominated union is calling to improve flawed flight-time/ Republicans Gerald “Trey” Fauth and Kyle Fortson duty-time regulations that fail to harmonize Can- as well as former ALPA member Democrat Linda ada’s outdated pilot fatigue rules with accepted Puchala to three-year terms on the National Me- fatigue science and other countries’ regulations diation Board. These three nominees now await (see page 17). Our initiative in Canada parallels Senate confirmation. ALPA’s priority of bringing all-cargo pilots under In addition, President Trump has appointed science-based flight- and duty-time regulations.
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