European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Airline experts fear lowering of Pilot standards tuesday. June 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 Miami a the fierce Competition among . Commercial airlines in a Post deregulation Boom is draining inc poo of available qualified pilots an experts warn that As demand for pilots increases the carriers cockpit experience requirements will fall. Airline officials say they will continue to provide thorough training no matter How competitive the marketplace be comes. About 50,000 pilots arc qualified to Fly big passenger acis in the United slates but the Atlanta based future aviation professionals of America predict thai an additional 32,600 pilots will be needed by 1997.last year nearly 8,000 commercial air line pilots were hired across the country More than in All of inc 1970s, the air line pilots association believes the squeeze of the marketplace could bring carriers to lower training standards in order to gel enough pilots. Economics is the Bottom said capt. Ken warns a Northwest airline Pilot who chairs Alpa s Pilot training committee. If there s a push Competition Wise then the majors will try to gel their pilots out As fasl As they can. Alpa plans to petition Congress later this summer for tighter Federal . Current requirements imposed in pc do regulation Days Are set As minimums. Prior to deregulation the majority of major carriers trained above the minimums be by Faa Warras , in the years since and particularly in the past 18 months the trend has been to reduce training toward the Faa mini mum he is very concerned about the he officials also arc becom ing More interested in Pilot availability and s something we Are concerned about something we learn about piece meal said Bill Bush of the National transportation safely Board in Washington. It s a developing Silva lion of pilots having less experience than 10 years airlines say they Are answering the drop in experience among new Pilot with increased raining and they con lend that despite increased Competition safely always will be he Industry s top spokesman Dick Stafford agrees and he says current regulations arc Ade quate. The Faa has nothing to do with training pilots. Pilots Are trained by the Carrier. It is a business Stafford said there in t any need As far As we can Tell to have stronger Eastern airlines Cape. Burton a Beach director of flight training for the Miami based Carrier says officials in Washington would t know what they were regulating and that inc Industry Isth Only qualified regulator. Beach concedes thai Pilot candidate standards such As age education Eye sight and Pilot ratings have been lower Dat Eastern in recent years but says Irain ing has increased to compensate for those changes. Eastern has trained Aboul 2,000 Pilot since August 1984 and expects to hire Al least 400 new pilots each year for the foreseeable future he said. Al the same Lime Hal demand for i Lols has risen the complexity of Large passenger planes has greatly increased requiring More knowledge rather than less Industry experts say. The cockpit of a stretch dc-9, for instance has 225switches, 90 gauges and 187 lights or warnings that s a two Man air plane said Roger Brooks 42, a Frontier airlines Captain. Not clowning around sa5 Iho of by h attending inc opening of the first me Donald s on an american base in Europe at Naples Italy Ronald Mcdon Ald last a. Cap on a Loath. He rushed to the dental clinic where Navy Rodr. Michael Jorge run took a look and made some dental repairs. Ronald was Given a clean Bill of health and left to Lake part in festivities Al the fast food restaurant. And what in Ranald s real name Mcdonald s has a policy against releasing thai information. Larouche backers banned from convention the in a democratic no minced a j Cranor and other supporters o. A. Extremist Lyndon Larouche were a saturday from the slate democratic convention. Mark Fairchild the candidate for lieu tenant governor and about a dozen Oiler Larouche supporters tried to gain Entrance to the United Auto worker shall where the convention was being held but were blocked by Security guards prompting a 10-minute shouting match. We Are democrats. We a pm Pri Mary. Do you speaker gab of do you speak Only Russ mfr shouted Sheila Jones mid director of the National do Mozart policy committee la Rolf uses organization. At one Point Fairchild and Jones were splashed with Beer. Slate sen. Patrick Welch a Peru Nan of the convention s credentials old the Larouche support ers in a Lent set up outside the to handle overflow crowds the proceedings on closed circuit it you Are Noti
