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07-24-2015, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: 57AZ - NW Tucson area
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... Ahmmmm... Hey Gil, you did a lighting plan for me of my current shop space that is totally PERFECT about 8yrs ago. Amazing that there is not a shadow in any corner (bring your sunglasses). We've been talking about how perfect your guidance was for the last 8yrs. So, in the coming months we have to recreate such perfection. Are your tools still current (T8 / T5?)? Sorry for the interruption  .
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07-24-2015, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Near Scipio, in Southern Indiana
Posts: 1,779
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I was the one who got Todd Rokita (author of the GA Protection Act) to come to Oshkosh last year and he invited me to Washington back in January. I haven't followed up with him since then but might give it another try. In January it was a "timing" issue. I know he hasn't lost interest. Will post it if I find out anything. Not sure anyone can or will give a straight answer...
Bob
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07-25-2015, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Marshall TX (KASL)
Posts: 1,783
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There are now 52 co-sponsors of Senate Bill 571 - Pilots Bill of Rights 2. It took me about an hour to look up and send messages to all of the non co-sponsors requesting them to do so. A surprising number of R senators are not yet co-sponsors. If they get 60 it's a done deal. I think it was worth my time.
"Please co-sponsor Senate Bill 571 - the Pilots Bill of Rights 2. This is an important issue because the FAA, after several years of delay, simply will not act on this common sense measure supported by all pilots and our aviation organizations. It has 52 co-sponsors already and is bipartisan."
Many co-sponsors have been added in just the last few days!
Here's the list of co-sponsors. Look at the states with just (1) and contact the other one. It's awkward because of the form-based email system but worth the time.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-...571/cosponsors
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07-25-2015, 09:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,692
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Originally Posted by Bill_H
supported by all pilots
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Unfortunately not true.
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RV-7A: Flying since April 15, 2012. 850 hrs
YIO-360-M1B, mags, CS, GRT EX and WS H1s & A/P, Navworx
Unpainted, polished....kinda'... Eyeballin' vinyl really hard.
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07-25-2015, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Big Sandy, WY
Posts: 2,567
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Oh bummer
Unfortunately in addition to adding PBR2 as an amendment to the trans bill, I've also read that the turtle is going to tack an obamacare repeal amendment on the same bill. This will of course guarantee a veto. Which they all know in advance. So I guess we get conned on that end to. After listening to Huerta basically say nothing and blow us off I have to conclude this whole system is off the rails.
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07-26-2015, 07:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Redding, CA
Posts: 96
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A new AME in town, who attended the required 1 week physician's AME course in OK this past Spring told me when he returned that the Secretary of Transportation had addressed the group of physicians and among other things said that 3rd class medical reform would never get approval from the Department of Transportation because the Department believes that quote: ?over 90% of GA accidents are in large part due to pilot use of drugs and alcohol.? Too bad as a fellow pilot on our field reminded several of us that NTSB reports simply do not bear this out. And it is certainly unfortunate that the Secretary chose to feed these newly minted AME's such misinformation.
Based on this, and assuming it is accurate, I think we will not see 3rd class medical reform until Congress forces it on the FAA.
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07-26-2015, 08:05 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
Posts: 2,247
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Originally Posted by posterman
?over 90% of GA accidents are in large part due to pilot use of drugs and alcohol.?
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If true, that would take first prize in the "blatant lies from minor bureaucrats" contest. What a ridiculous statement. And even if it were true -- how exactly would a third class medical change that? I guess listening to these guys is like going to see a sci-fi movie... you just have to suspend disbelief.
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Based on this, and assuming it is accurate, I think we will not see 3rd class medical reform until Congress forces it on the FAA.
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They (the FAA) have made that perfectly clear over the past several years. While making numerous promises to "look into it", they have actually done absolutely nothing. It's a loss of power that no bureaucracy would tolerate without being forced into it.
Sorry, I guess I'm a little owly this morning. Back to my coffee.
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07-26-2015, 08:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Big Sandy, WY
Posts: 2,567
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When was the last time we had a real aviator to head the FAA? Huerta's background is useless. Might as well put a Fathead behind his desk. Like that show "Undercover Boss", there isn't a CEO in the bunch that can perform their company's lowliest job. Useless.
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07-26-2015, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 44
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Originally Posted by rzbill
Unfortunately not true.
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Apparently 52,000 pilots don't agree with the PBOR2 as ALPA put this letter out back in June. As is typical with these kinds of statements it presents a concern to get the reader excited ("allow medically unfit pilots unfettered access to the national airspace at altitudes up to 18,000 feet, which
also includes commercial airline traffic carrying passengers and cargo") with no data to support how this situation would not be any different from today with all of the "daily self certified" pilots currently occupying that same airspace.
I guess back to my coffee as well.........
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07-26-2015, 09:22 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
Posts: 9,500
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Originally Posted by fly3g
Apparently 52,000 pilots don't agree with the PBOR2 as ALPA put this letter out back in June.
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That really ticks me off....seriously, airline pilots are opposed to eliminating the third class medical?
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