FAA bleed air research project, including incident exposure data and health effects gets the go ahead.
We wish to congratulate the American Flight Attendants Association (AFA) and the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) for being accepted as the 2 union representative bodies on the US$ 1.9 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funded project on bleed air research, which was given the final approval to begin last week and will finish in March 2007. This research will be conducted by the "Occupational Health Research Consortium in Aviation" (OHRCA) and members of the “FAA Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research" (ACER).
We also commend the US FAA for taking a world lead on researching openly this issue unlike some other regulators who do all they can to 'confuse' and 'mislead' the public and crews.