AVmail: August 3, 2015

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Letter of the Week:
ALPA’s Medical Bombshell

I’m a retired Northwest Airlines (now Delta) 747-400 captain. I was a member of ALPA for 38 years. The letter ALPA put out against medical is baseless.

Due to the fact many ALPA pilots and those representing pilots at other carriers, retired and active, own GA aircraft, I think the leadership opened their big mouth and inserted their foot. All pilots flying GA aircraft need to keep contacting their elected officials.

Thanks for the coverage,

Capt. Jim Carney


More Medical Missives

I don’t have stats to back this up, but I would be willing to bet that more ALPA captains have dropped dead at the controls of airliners than private pilots, and they have first-class medicals twice a year!

Jack Walton


Riding with Tom Poberezny

The coverage of Tom’s visit was excellent, but the wind noise and his soft voice, made most of his “controversial” comments inaudible. Today, we have fuzz-wrapped mikes which would have eliminated this problem. No controversy for me, though. I agreed with everything he said (uh, all that I heard, that is)!

Bill Padden

AVweb responds:
It was especially windy that day, and although we did our best to mitigate the wind noise, it didn’t work very well. We’ll learn from it.


Oshkosh Top Ten

Just to let you guys know you are doing a great job and always look forward to your interviews and links. I must admit though that your “Top 10 Reasons You Know You’re at AirVenture” was brilliant.

Alex Kulpecz

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