Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star) : "Kennedy's got this country laid out like one big switchboard. He knows what's going on in every state, in every local issue. He's tough and decisive and determined. I marvel at his organizational ability. Openmouthed wonderment was precisely what the pilot of the bandwagon wanted, for the time was at hand to convince the bosses of the big holdout states that they would be left far behind at the Los Angeles convention if they did not scramble aboard. But there was no stampede. In New York, the delegates' caucus at Albany handed...
Collision Course. The spreading sickness has brought on a showdown in the bitter feud between Clarence N. Sayen, boss of the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood ("Pete") Quesada (TIME, June 20). What sparked the showdown is a dispute over where the FAA inspectors sit in the new jetliners. Quesada says they must have the forward observer's seat (across from the flight engineer's seat) so that they can see if the pilot is obeying FAA rules. But Sayen maintains that that seat is reserved for the third pilot, issued...
...introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting to pass it off under the guise of safety should be changed...
...forward observer's seat. The FAA maintains that its inspectors must use this seat in order to observe the crew properly. But for A.L.P.A. this seat has a special significance. Last year after bitter wrangling with the airlines, A.L.P.A. got the right to have a third pilot sit in this seat on American, TWA, Eastern and Pan American jet planes; it was the union's way of ensuring that jobs for pilots do not decrease too drastically as the swifter, larger jets cut down the number of individual flights. A.L.P.A. does not want to see the third pilot...
Emergency Regulation. To avert more cancellations, Eastern went to a federal court in Miami, got a temporary restraining order requiring Eastern pilots to give the forward observer's seat to FAA inspectors. Quesada, stung by what he termed A.L.P.A.'s "arrogant defiance of the Government," rushed through an emergency Civil Air Regulation, requiring the forward observer's seat to be turned over to FAA inspectors. For pilots who balk. Old Pilot Quesada laid down the penalty that hurts most - suspension of a pilot's license. Rather than disobey the court order and the new FAA regulation...