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Your cover article on aviation safety [Feb. 22] was timely, interesting and informative. However, somebody besides the flying public was vitally interested in air safety, even in the "pre-Quesada" days: the airline pilot. We pilots frequently sounded like voices in the wilderness. Flight safety is, always has been, and always will be our most important product...
...seconds. Severe though the players' jolt was, it lasted only 5/1000 of a second. Sponsors of the experiment were engineers from the Stanley Aviation Corp., which is building the escape capsule for the Air Force's new mach 2 bomber, the B58 Hustler. In these capsules the pilot will be fired out of the plane by an explosive charge, will get another jolt when the capsule hits the outside air traveling at supersonic speeds...
...being unnecessarily arbitrary and of failing to consult with the industry before he gavels out his dicta. Recently, he ordered airlines to install weather radar in all planes, had to back down and make an exception of obsolescent planes when some lines raised a ruckus. The Air Line Pilots Association, the exclusive A.F.L.-C.I.O. union (membership: 14,000) led by Militant Pilot Clarence Sayen, is Quesada's most vociferous critic. A.L.P.A.'s latest complaint: Quesada's new ruling requiring mandatory retirement of all transport pilots at 60. The union is bringing court action against Quesada for that...
Command Decision. Another recent incident that blew up a storm occurred last month, when a National Airlines pilot was rolling his 707 down a Miami runway. Suddenly one engine flamed out. Though the plane was within three or four knots of critical takeoff speed and thus technically should have aborted, it looked to the pilot as if such action would almost certainly lead to a crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot...
...modern pilot, the stresses are just as great. He must absorb hundreds of rules and procedures, study graphs, maps and reports, even occasionally take off his jet on downwind runways because airport operators prefer him to fly over open areas and avoid householders' complaints about noise. A pilot has to be able to make as many as 100 visual "fixes" per minute on his instrument panel during his busiest moments-the landing approach. He must take extra precautions to keep his health during a long flight; pilots and copilots take their meals at alternate times; American Airlines forbids crews...