Larry King Live and USAPA

Minuteman said:
Gotcha, I meant that it should be extremely rare to have someone use the FDR to report back to management about how long the APU was running on a specific sequence of flights.

In my mind, flight ops use of the recorder data should be guarded, especially outside of formal data analysis program.

It's a bummer that life-limited parts could be used to waste money instead of just dumping a thousand pounds over the Atlantic if an issue really had to be made.
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Or they could go the route of SJA and have you enter in the APU Hobbs time on the ACARS summary page, at least for those planes which have one. It's supposed to be entered at TOC, so they get a pretty good idea of what crews are doing.
 
kellwolf said:
Problem is, Joe Public doesn't really care as long as he can get from Point A to Point B for as little money as possible. Until planes are falling out of the sky, the general public really isn't gonna care. So, any huge ad campaign geared towards the public is gonna be a waste of funds.
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Bingo! ALPA has done focus groups to determine how the public would react to various ad campaigns. Overwhelmingly, the results were that the public would still continue to fly on the airlines that offer them the cheapest price until there were very serious safety concerns. Labor concerns didn't seem to phase them at all, and even minor safety concerns didn't seem to be a problem for most of them. Ticket price is king until the passenger truly believes that his airplane is going to fall out of the sky.
 
Honestly, I think Aeroflot could make a killing over here as long as they charged $70 each way. Who needs reliable MX and safety.....
 
I flew up to Utah yesterday and my pilot had a giant sticker on his flight case. I tried to take a picture of it with my camera-phone but it didn't come out.

Big red box with yellow and white print:

"Fellow Pilots:

I am not a member of USAPA."
 
N826AW said:
I flew up to Utah yesterday and my pilot had a giant sticker on his flight case. I tried to take a picture of it with my camera-phone but it didn't come out.

Big red box with yellow and white print:

"Fellow Pilots:

I am not a member of USAPA."
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Ha! Classic. Probably the first time in pilot union history that pilots actually feel the need to defend themselves by proclaiming that they are not a member of the union.
 
Hey guys, quick question. How many of the East guys voted to retain ALPA? I believe all of the West guys voted for ALPA, and some of the East, just not sure how many.
 
kellwolf said:
What if they fill out an ASAP after every flight. :)

"Due to concerns about fuel and making it across the ocean, coupled with complex departure procedures, I forgot to turn off the APU."
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. . . and burned an additional (1000 lbs ?) while doing it. That's a laugh:rotfl:
 
Ehem.... anyone with less than 1000 TT and less than 1 year at a company shouldn't already be a Union bad boy. JetU'ers y'all paid $30 grand so why should the organization that protects my job be staffed by you??

Anyone with less than a year should pray they don't have to go into a meeting with management with no union rep. ;-) :bandit: good times!
 
cencal83406 said:
Ehem.... anyone with less than 1000 TT and less than 1 year at a company shouldn't already be a Union bad boy. JetU'ers y'all paid $30 grand so why should the organization that protects my job be staffed by you??

Anyone with less than a year should pray they don't have to go into a meeting with management with no union rep. ;-) :bandit: good times!
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Um, is there a story behind this one? Inquiring minds wanna know. And if someone's been here less than a year....shouldn't they still be on probation?
 
I had less than a year at Skyway when I volunteered (well, actually I was drafted) into the MEC Communications Committee.

It wasn't necessarily because I was "angry" like a lot of people are. I just thought I could do my part and I was snarky and sarcastic enough to do a good job at the whole communications thing and thought our pilot group deserved better than what we were getting from Skyway management.
 
You know the biggest downside of working Comms? You can't post on in house (or maybe even outside) webboards anymore because people who are angry at the union insinuate that YOUR opinion is the actual union opinion and you start getting in trouble for stuff.
 
Not much of a problem with that back in 1996! :)

"Innernets, whuz dat?"
 
BobDDuck said:
You know the biggest downside of working Comms? You can't post on in house (or maybe even outside) webboards anymore because people who are angry at the union insinuate that YOUR opinion is the actual union opinion and you start getting in trouble for stuff.
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Never stopped me. :)
 
Must be nice. Then again, maybe you didn't have an old MEC group trying to spread FUD about the current MEC group at every chance they got.
 
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