Change training. Make it so that Flight Safety is the only place that can do airline training.

Make the mins to 4000 hours just to be sure.

You need to take an IQ test, min score of superior intelligence.

I also like the free quarter pounder with cheese days idea.

 

Ugh ... you know there are plenty of people who live in these areas who make less than regional pilots. If you require high standards of living, then please, do not take these jobs. If people actually did this, they would be required to pay people what they should.

 

8 hrs bottle to throttle changed to 8 feet bottle to throttle:

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I would require the airlines pay thier pilots based on their DUTY time not their flight time.

I would forbid a pilot from flying while ill and mandate that the carrier compensate the pilot while he or she is getting treatment and recuperating.

A pilot shall have 20 "personal days", no questions asked, but no sick time, thus removing the possibility of an airline requiring a doctors note. If you're not up for the flight, your not up for the flight. Period.

A pilot shall have a minimum of 20 days vacation.

I would also set a "pilot minimum wage" for all regional 121 carriers. SIC's to start at 40K per year. Captains will be paid a minimum of 80K. The pay would be adjusted annually for inflation and cost of living to encourage pilots to live in or near their base.

All national carriers shall pay their SIC's a minimum of 70K, and their Captains a minimum of 120K

To ensure proper and decent management of an airline, management personnel will be individually certified and licensed by the FAA. Should any corporate malfeasance or gross negligence occur the FAA may revoke the managers certificate and bar them from working at an airline or aviation related field. This would prevent Gordon Gekko's from hopping from one airline to the next ruining lives for their own gain.

I would start the 12 hour "rest period" from when the pilots check into the hotel.

Additionally, while I wouldn't require an ATP, I would create a new license called the "SIC ATP". The certificate would be required to act as an SIC on any 121 air carrier The mins would be 1500 total time, 100 night, 100 instrument, 200 cross country, and a minimum of 100 hours of multi or 50 hours of simulated turbine time or 75 hours of a combination of both. The pilot must pass the ATP written with an 80% or higher. The pilot would also be required to hold an active commercial pilot's certificate for 3 years before applying for the certificate. Afterwards, the pilot MUST obtain their PIC ATP within 5 years of their date of hire.

An airline may furlough a pilot, however, they must provide health coverage, and pay them a minimum of 1/2 of last years pay.

I would eliminate the use of the seniority system in it's entirety

Oh and free ice cream.

 

I'd throw next gen out the window, a nice system, but subject to far too many errors, and it has NO backup.... which means that at some point somebody will notice that and THEN decide we ALSO need to keep our nationwide traditional radar systems up and running as backups, and then we LOSE all the long term cost savings this idea brings... it also is a bad idea in terms of national security... NextGen would not show a cessna slipping across the border at 2000 feet from Canada with no GPS driven ADS-B system, and there would be no primary target only displayed.

 

Not really workable.... more realistic would be standardized procedures based on equipment.... in other words a type rating obtained while flying at Company A on XYZ equipment is the exact same procedures as a type rating from Company B,C, D.... on the same equipment.... in other words, national standardized procedures... toss company specific manuals out the window and everybody fly per the MANUFACTURES manual...

ONE LEVEL of SAFETY, ONE LEVEL of TRAINING, ONE LEVEL of STANDARDS....

 

I would love to have the ideas posted above worked into our schedules. But be careful of what you wish for. The government getting involved will probably give us more rest; but will result in less money for us. Think about your schedules...how can the company build schedules that allow 6 hours block in a 12 hour duty day for 4 days in a row?? You might be able to build a couple schedules, but it can't be done for an entire pilot group. Say good bye to working 14 days and getting 90+ hours for the month!

 

Ok if these are your goal, you need to add ONE LEVEL of PAY, since your obviously talking about the same standards between Regionals and Majors, unfortunatly the Legacy's and the Super Senior pilots will never allow it.....

 

1. Duty day would not exceed 12 hrs

2. Rest would start at the hotel, not the van.

3. There would be no reduced rest.

4. Stand ups would be illegal.

5. Atp required for all pilots to fly 121

6. All training would be AQP unless it is the pilots initial check ride or type
rating.
7. All 121 pilots will be typed on the aircraft they fly.

 

Punishable by what?