Can BALPA not get involved and argue the cause? The issue here is safety and that ought to concern them.
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'ANTIGUA'................................................... .................. Well you do say callsign only!
Hello once again. Thanks for sticking with us.
Probably, is probably the answer to your question. I think there may be a bit more milage left in this, but when you're all sitting back exhausted, I'm going to collate all this and ask them the very same question. BALPA are having a minor civil war at the moment but I'm sure I can get into an ATS Study Group (or whatever they call themselves this week) meeting and put it to them.
It may not suprise you to know that in my younger days I sat on this committee ( for about ten years - or so it seemed at the time). That was way back in the days of the likes of Fred Frost etc. from your side........... yeah, well I did say I'd done the rounds.
As an aside, and to show how long ago it was, I wrote the BALPA appraisal of OMEGA, and together with a collegue did the pilot side of TCAS at Malvern. (YES..... it started off as a ground based thing). At least on this side of the Pond.
Anyway, I know how slow the wheels can turn, (Dennis Leonards' alpha-numeric callsigns?). It is, however the next step unless someone has a brighter idea?
An incident/crash, God save us, would 'help' of course. But we're trying to stop that, are we not?
Regards
ANTIGUA
