Evas on UPS fleet!
04-01-2011, 08:33 AM
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Evas on UPS fleet!
Great News, can't happen soon enough!
United Parcel Service Inc., after months of pressure from the union representing pilots, has decided to equip its entire fleet of cargo jets with smoke-protection devices designed to ensure that cockpit instruments remain visible in case of heavy smoke.
The Atlanta-based company has informed its pilots about the decision, according to people familiar with the details, and the company also has pledged to move toward installing fire-suppression systems on a large chunk of its fleet of more than 200 cargo aircraft.
The moves come as the House is scheduled to resume debate Friday on a broad Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill.
Even as UPS was finalizing details of its safety initiative Thursday, leaders of the House Transportation Committee persuaded the House to defeat an amendment that would have required the FAA to consider mandating technology to "maintain pilot visibility when dense, continuous smoke" fills the cockpit.
United Parcel Service Inc., after months of pressure from the union representing pilots, has decided to equip its entire fleet of cargo jets with smoke-protection devices designed to ensure that cockpit instruments remain visible in case of heavy smoke.
The Atlanta-based company has informed its pilots about the decision, according to people familiar with the details, and the company also has pledged to move toward installing fire-suppression systems on a large chunk of its fleet of more than 200 cargo aircraft.
The moves come as the House is scheduled to resume debate Friday on a broad Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill.
Even as UPS was finalizing details of its safety initiative Thursday, leaders of the House Transportation Committee persuaded the House to defeat an amendment that would have required the FAA to consider mandating technology to "maintain pilot visibility when dense, continuous smoke" fills the cockpit.
04-01-2011, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ThreeSides
This is five years late and paid for with the blood of two. We are lucky it wasn't the blood of five.
04-01-2011, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Larcifer
WOW!!! You are one unhappy individual. Given the fact that safety in aviation has alway come at the cost of blood. We all should be thankful that this change is going to be made.
Wow...Really? Does it HAVE to come at such a high cost? Or is it just management not wanting to spend a nickle until it is too late?
04-01-2011, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Larcifer
WOW!!! You are one unhappy individual. Given the fact that safety in aviation has alway come at the cost of blood. We all should be thankful that this change is going to be made.
04-01-2011, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Larcifer
WOW!!! You are one unhappy individual. Given the fact that safety in aviation has alway come at the cost of blood. We all should be thankful that this change is going to be made.
04-01-2011, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Larcifer
WOW!!! You are one unhappy individual. Given the fact that safety in aviation has alway come at the cost of blood. We all should be thankful that this change is going to be made.
I got chastised for calling you bad things and having bad thoughts about your opinions. Which BTW, I believe to be below the gutter, and still do. How can I put this PC? Well, I guess I can't, so I wont try.
I only went to college with DL, and instructed with him, but if his blood makes you thankfull, so be it with you. 6 21
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