johnso29

But I'm a pilot. I'm no good @ the calculus required to figure my own RAW!

acl65pilot

Just take a way and assume it is correct. Every time I have for the heck of it done the formula it is dead on.

acl65pilot

FtB, It gives me many many ideas. Like maybe a APC Latest and Greatest ticker...... Oh the possibilities.

dragon

For simpler math, figure about 11 per day you're flying and 8 per day PD, APD or sick. I'm not sure about Mil leave.

hockeypilot44

Who is considered on reserve status when reading the pilot reserve levels? I ask this because I start reserve in a couple days. It says "0" that day for pilot's available. I will be starting a fresh set of reserve days so I will be available unless given a trip. Do they subtract the number of trips in open time from reserves available? I'm just trying to make sense of the little information we are given.

Justdoinmyjob

How serious were they, or were they just paperwork stuff?

Northwest Airlines found to violate FAA rules

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• A federal investigation finds Northwest Airlines violated FAA safety directives
• The investigation by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel corroborates a whistleblower
• The whistleblower alleged the carrier did not have adequate policies and procedures

(CNN) -- Northwest Airlines violated more than 1,000 Federal Aviation Administration safety directives, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has found, substantiating complaints of an FAA whistleblower.
Northwest, now merged with Delta Airlines, engaged in "systemic non-compliance with FAA Airworthiness Directives," the investigation concluded, referring to government rules designed to remedy an unsafe or potentially unsafe condition.
"Despite Northwest's history of Airworthiness Directive non-compliance," the Office of Special Counsel said, "FAA inspectors continued to work collaboratively with Northwest to resolve deficiencies, and closing enforcement cases primarily by issuing letters of correction rather than seeking civil penalties."
Whistleblower Mark Lund of the FAA's former Northwest inspection office in Bloomington, Minnesota, alleged that the carrier did not have adequate policies and procedures in place in 2008 to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
"The investigation substantiated Mr. Lund's allegations," wrote Associate Special Counsel William Reukauf in a letter to President Baracl Obama.
In response to the findings, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has established a review team to oversee the carrier's compliance. The FAA also proposed disciplinary action against two Northwest managers.
The FAA released a statement Thursday saying that the agency "has taken corrective action on the issues identified in the whistleblower complaint and is continuing to monitor compliance."

KC10 FATboy

Yeah, this is all over the radio here.

I believe this is the second finding against NWA since our merger.

KC10 FATboy

Northwest Airlines Didn't Follow Safety Orders

Published July 22, 2010

Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- For more than a decade, Northwest Airlines repeatedly failed to follow federal safety orders but wasn't held accountable by the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a government report.

The report by the Transportation Department's inspector general's office confirmed many of the allegations brought by a whistleblower in 2005 and again in 2008 of a cozy relationship between FAA managers and the airlines they are charged with inspecting.

FAA inspector Mark Lund charged that FAA managers at the safety office that oversaw Northwest routinely allowed the airline to avoid penalties or fines by voluntarily disclosing failures.

In response, the FAA headquarters initiated a national review of safety order compliance at major airlines in 2008 that found 14 instances in a four-month period in which Northwest didn't complied with safety orders, one of the highest of all the airlines reviewed, the IG report said.

The failure to comply with FAA safety orders continued even after FAA's review, the report said. There were eight more instances in which Northwest didn't carry out safety orders in the budget year ending on Sept. 30 2009, the report said. The FAA office overseeing the airline closed five of those cases without recommending penalties or fines.

In one of those cases, Northwest had to ground 27 planes because they hadn't inspected landing gear parts as required by a safety order. The inspections were intended to prevent the main landing gear from separating from the wing and possibly rupturing a fuel tank, the report said.

Given that the problems have continued, "the status of Northwest's compliance with more than 1,000 (safety orders) is unknown," the IG report said.

The IG report is dated Dec. 7, 2009. It was released this week by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which handles federal whistle-blower complaints.

Northwest merged with Delta Air Lines last year, creating the world's largest airline. It now flies as Delta.

"We are currently reviewing the documents and, as always, we will fully cooperate with the government agencies to ensure our core values of safety, quality and compliance are not compromised," Delta spokesman Anthony Black said.

FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the agency "has taken corrective action on the issues identified in the whistleblower complaint and is continuing to monitor compliance."

Linda Goodrich, vice president of Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, the union that represents FAA inspectors, said she is "appalled that an inspector has to go through this much of an extraordinary effort to raise serious safety concerns on behalf of the flying public."

Lund has "taken a lot of abuse" since he went public with his allegations, she said.

The special counsel's office, which is required to report its findings to the president, said in a letter to the White House on Wednesday that most of Lund's allegations have largely been substantiated.

Lund has told the special counsel that despite the Northwest-Delta merger, FAA managers are still not backing up inspectors who try to cite the airline for safely problems.

The letter quoted Lund as saying that an inspector "has to typically fight through the FAA management chain" to do his duties and that the FAA's "culture of placing the interests of the carrier over safety continues to pose a risk to the flying public."

The IG said the FAA should conduct another major inspection at Northwest's operations, independent of Delta, and review a sample of past safety orders involving Northwest to better assess its compliance record.

Margaret Gilligan, FAA's associate administrator for aviation safety, said in a December memo, also made public Wednesday, that the agency was working to implement the recommendations.

nwaf16dude

I spoke with scheduling, and they said it was international...also said that it was recently changed from domestic. Not sure of their definition of recent.

reddog25

Cool, now we need to get Contract Admin to pay Intl rates too