Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
It has been done, and will probably be done again.
P2P is being started up again with the intention of it being a standing committee going forward. I too strongly beleive in education of the pilot group. I spend many LAYO's doing just that. You are correct, most guys do not know and many do not care. I do submit that the information is out there if you seek it. Websites like this have made it very easy for the lazy pilot to up his level of knowledge ten fold by just reading the back and forth.
Add to it what ALPA National is doing with the education committee, all of the e-mails DALPA sends out about contracts sections, Retirement and Insurance, etc, if one just keeps up on that reading their level of knowledge goes up a ton. It does take work though. Most just want the answer they need at the moment they need it though.
ACL,
I'm assuming you're responding to LandGreen2. P2P is a great idea if well executed except as I understand it, it's one on one. What we should be doing is something on a broader scale. Land proposes a handout or pamphlet or even a FTB type PowerPoint for those of us who like a bottom line.
ALPA is great about mushrooming the masses and saying trust us. OK, I'll trust but only after you show you're on top of things. The recent NPRM response was great in that regard, but how about a little less chest thumping in the magazine and an online education program as we go forward to C12.