"Industry Best Practice"
01-18-2015, 07:31 AM
#34
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Originally Posted by Anc74
Surprised you guys put up with this crap. If the whole pilot group stood firm on wanting more training, not less, the company would have no choice but to comply.
Nobody's fault but yours.
Nobody's fault but yours.
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01-18-2015, 08:20 AM
#35
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Originally Posted by Anc74
Surprised you guys put up with this crap. If the whole pilot group stood firm on wanting more training, not less, the company would have no choice but to comply.
Nobody's fault but yours.
Nobody's fault but yours.
01-18-2015, 11:16 AM
#37
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Just FWIW:
MD-11 recurrent at Brown was unilaterally reduced by management. We have a 6/12 footprint that is 2 days and 3 days. They decided to drop a day from the 6 month.
The IPA interceded and got that "cost-saving" measure reversed. It can be done. Now would be the time to get ALPAs training committee all over this.
MD-11 recurrent at Brown was unilaterally reduced by management. We have a 6/12 footprint that is 2 days and 3 days. They decided to drop a day from the 6 month.
The IPA interceded and got that "cost-saving" measure reversed. It can be done. Now would be the time to get ALPAs training committee all over this.
01-18-2015, 11:19 AM
#38
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UPS Reinstates MD11 AQP Training Day for 2015
Today, UPS confirmed that it is reinstating the 2 day MD11 AQP course by adding back a day of AQP into the MD-11 six month training program. The Company had cut the day just last month, which will be added back starting in January.
“We give the Company credit for listening to our concerns, and making the decision to add the AQP day back into the MD-11 training program,” said IPA President Bob Travis. UPS VP Matt Capozzoli today confirmed the change to the Company’s plan.
“Cutting recurrent training never made good sense from either a business or safety perspective, and we are glad UPS has taken our recommendations and acted on them,” Travis added.
Today, UPS confirmed that it is reinstating the 2 day MD11 AQP course by adding back a day of AQP into the MD-11 six month training program. The Company had cut the day just last month, which will be added back starting in January.
“We give the Company credit for listening to our concerns, and making the decision to add the AQP day back into the MD-11 training program,” said IPA President Bob Travis. UPS VP Matt Capozzoli today confirmed the change to the Company’s plan.
“Cutting recurrent training never made good sense from either a business or safety perspective, and we are glad UPS has taken our recommendations and acted on them,” Travis added.
01-18-2015, 04:37 PM
#39
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Seriously?
My Two Cents
I realize we are in contract negoiations and some members of the MEC don't want to rock the boat or create contentious environment BUT there are some SAFETY issues floating around out there that warrant our collective IMMEDIATE attention!
1) So we are no longer going to have to inspect DG?.... NO WAY!
Too many times over the years there have been items disorientated, non segregated, leaking, etc.
2) Beacuse of "Industary Standard" we are going strech our CMV Training Cycles from a 6/12 month cycle to a 9/18 month cycle for $$$ management MBO's ?
REALLY?? We don't operate like most other (Passenger) carriers that get more legs and more landings per month.Why is it our upper management picks and chooses the issues they choose to adopt from the other carriers $$$$$$? Most other carriers don't fly our demanding hub turn trip night schedule and have both a domestic and international schedules. We have a "Your good to go" mentality which states we are ALL International pilots. To strech our trainig cycles to a 9/18 month CMV schedules will further compromise and degrade our safety.
3) Now today I heard they are considering removing "STOP MARGIN" from our performance data because someone had the ramp pull freight from a flight to increase their stop margin for takeoff?
This is TOTALLY INSANE! You are going to remove one of the more significant numbers in our performance data to enhance payload?
This very dangerous trend indicating a perilous degration of safety that has to stop, and STOP NOW before someone experiences a REALLY BAD DAY so someone else can optimize their MBO $$$$$$$'s
We all need to take the personal time and write management and express our distain for ALL of these and any other issues which may have a direct impact on our safety (for dollars).
We also need to express our dissatisfaction with FedEx ALPA MEC for creating an environment where safety is being subdued for the sake of contract negations!
My Two Cents
I realize we are in contract negoiations and some members of the MEC don't want to rock the boat or create contentious environment BUT there are some SAFETY issues floating around out there that warrant our collective IMMEDIATE attention!
1) So we are no longer going to have to inspect DG?.... NO WAY!
Too many times over the years there have been items disorientated, non segregated, leaking, etc.
2) Beacuse of "Industary Standard" we are going strech our CMV Training Cycles from a 6/12 month cycle to a 9/18 month cycle for $$$ management MBO's ?
REALLY?? We don't operate like most other (Passenger) carriers that get more legs and more landings per month.Why is it our upper management picks and chooses the issues they choose to adopt from the other carriers $$$$$$? Most other carriers don't fly our demanding hub turn trip night schedule and have both a domestic and international schedules. We have a "Your good to go" mentality which states we are ALL International pilots. To strech our trainig cycles to a 9/18 month CMV schedules will further compromise and degrade our safety.
3) Now today I heard they are considering removing "STOP MARGIN" from our performance data because someone had the ramp pull freight from a flight to increase their stop margin for takeoff?
This is TOTALLY INSANE! You are going to remove one of the more significant numbers in our performance data to enhance payload?
This very dangerous trend indicating a perilous degration of safety that has to stop, and STOP NOW before someone experiences a REALLY BAD DAY so someone else can optimize their MBO $$$$$$$'s
We all need to take the personal time and write management and express our distain for ALL of these and any other issues which may have a direct impact on our safety (for dollars).
We also need to express our dissatisfaction with FedEx ALPA MEC for creating an environment where safety is being subdued for the sake of contract negations!
01-18-2015, 07:58 PM
#40
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When STOP MARGIN goes away (reportedly sometime this year), I'll just have to do more max power takeoffs out of the shorter fields. As it is now, have a decent idea of whether I'm more in the GO mode versus the Stop mode near V1. If I don't have the info, I'll have to lean towards the safer option.
Even if it's more likely to cause an engine failure
Even if it's more likely to cause an engine failure
