All of you anti-alpa guys make me laugh... you hate the very people who have made this industry safer for you to fly in. Alpa has been key in designing and forcing the faa to make changes that make the skies safer. What really irks me is even you guys who are against alpa are enjoying the benefits alpa brings. I work hard so you guys can stay on welfare and feed off my dues.
Humor me with this analogy if you will. Lets say me and a group of my friends built a basketball court for us to play on. The problem is they only place you are allowed to build one is on government property and since we did they say we have to let everyone play. well we cant change that so all we ask for is some donations so we can maintain the hoops, the paint, etc, etc... several people pay in so they can use it, and because they like the nice court we have provided for them, while others just come around, enjoy the court and then walk off without paying to help with the up keep. they enjoy playing, but don't think they need to pay to do it. One day the rim got bent on the basket ball hoop, after i did a 360 tomahawk dunk. All the people who were paying got their money together to fix the hoop. while it was being fixed the guys who didn't like paying complained and cried, wondering when it would be fixed...
here is the basis and facts from my story..
http://www.ntsb.gov/speeches/former/hall/jh980819.htm
Through ALPA’s participation in our investigations, you have shared your wealth of up-to-date operational experience with procedures, techniques and equipment. Through the years, you have been able to identify problem areas directly affecting pilots, such as:
• Approach design.
• ATC procedures.
• Unusual attitude recovery.
• Wind shear, and
• Wake turbulence.
• first-generation Ground Proximity Warning Systems,
• wind shear detection and pilot training,
• air traffic control communications,
• airport signage and lighting, and
• training and maintenance procedures for propeller engines.
Moreover, ALPA pilots and ALPA safety committees have routinely identified and proposed remedial actions for a variety of aviation safety issues. For example, ALPA experts have always worked closely with the NTSB and other aviation community specialists on air traffic control issues, forecasting and dissemination of severe weather information, instrument approach design and procedures, human performance, survival factors and airport safety.
The Air Line Pilots Association is by no means against the use of recorded data to advance air safety. In fact ALPA has written policies which accommodate, and even encourage, the use of such devices. With regard to cockpit and cabin sound recorders, policy language almost 40 years old states that, "ALPA representatives shall endeavor to obtain the maximum usefulness for such devices, while providing the greatest possible protection against the abuse and misuse of such devices by any government agency, carrier, or any other group". More recently, ALPA has been a proponent of expanding the number of recorded parameters on DFDR devices and has encouraged the adoption of Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) programs which analyze recorded data in order to advance flight safety. And ALPA is also assisting with a number of our major current investigations
http://home.att.net/~aircargosafety/Flight_Time.htm
http://www.laserinstitute.org/news/r...s/TMCVENES.php
http://www.eltoroairport.org/issues/alpa.html
http://www.thetracon.com/news/pr52400.htm
Infact alpa is working right now with congress and the faa to re-write the rest requirements and duty rules for all airline pilots. they have to have a report out in 18 months.
i could go on, and on, and on,,, just a google search will provide all the information you need. i know alpa isn't perfect, but they are what we have, and when it comes down to it, they are the best at what they do. so while all of you are out their bashing alpa, take a look around you and enjoy the benifits this evil union has brought you..