Originally Posted by
Shaggy1970
Just curious if not a leadership role than what you would call it? As far as alpa goes, other growing large mustaches what have they done in the past 20 years to promote our cause?
Last 20 years:
ASAP (Thank you NWALPA)
HIMS
CVR transcript exemption from court proceedings
FOQA use limitations
Official Party Status in NTSB accident investigations
Airport Safety Liaison program
Charter member of FAA RNP development committee
TCAS requirement for Part 135 aircraft
Official observer status within ICAO
NATS min separation rules
Retaining the jumpseat post-9/11
Hardened cockpit doors post-9/11
CASS
KCM
FFDO Program and its continued funding
Sleep Apnea change prevention
Cabotage/Foreign ownership limits retained
FAR 117 (ALPA Co-chaired and appointed ½ of all labor members of the ARC)
Couple other goodies more than 20 years back:
Aircraft weather radar requirement
Cargo Fire Detection/Suppression in commercial aircraft
GPWS requirement
Grooved Runways mandate
Runway distance to go markings
TAWS requirement (Enhanced GPWS)
Together we WILL get Cargo pilots included, they were in the initial language; it was CAA member lobbying to cut cargo out in the first place.
Let's keep this about working to FIX problems in the profession, not about some individual's feelings about the largest pilots union in the world.
(Oh, and only one of the four National officers has a mustache.
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