CrewPass Full Court Press! Let's get this done!

[densoo]

TSA is on the hot seat, the 24-hour news cycle is covering this (but not for long), ALPA is actually exerting some of its muscle with threatening to have 53,000 pilots refuse the AIT!

Here is a link to congress. Put in you zip code and your senators and reps will load automatically. Delete the existing text regarding NPRM and put in your own.

http://capwiz.com/capapilots/issues/alert/?alertid=19337501

A suggested comment:

As an airline pilot who must go through TSA xray and patdown security several times a week, I urge you to require the TSA to deploy nationwide the already tested and approved CrewPass technology for screening pilots. Thank you.

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

Done...

 

[RedDogC130]

Done...

 

[COOPERVANE]

Done!!

 

[BigDave]

done as well, good stuff

 

[densoo]

On Letterman's Top Ten last night

Keep those emails going. CrewPass by Christmas!

http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=6sIVOsoz_zGF8bMy01cGsmMstTwNmSpk&nrd=1

 

[densoo]

TSA in front of Congress today! Send your email to your congressman. Volume speaks volumes. Submit your email to your congressmen here:

http://capwiz.com/capapilots/issues/alert/?alertid=19337501

Washington (CNN) -- The head of the Transportation Security Administration will likely get a pat-down on air-travel security measures as he testifies before Congress on Wednesday morning.

The appearance by John Pistole was scheduled before controversy broke out over the past week about the agency's full body scans and pat-downs. But protest movements about the searches make such questioning likely when Pistole testifies about his agency's security efforts before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

Hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger on Tuesday joined the opposition to heightened airport security procedures, which critics have called invasive.

Sullenberger, who landed a crippled US Airways jet on the Hudson River last year, said the use of full-body pat-downs and advanced imaging scanners for airline personnel "just isn't an efficient use of our resources."

 

[flyer172r]

sent.

 

[Ben Franklin]

I sent the following:

I am an airline pilot who must endure the security screening process several times per week... including shoe removal. I endure this embarrassing and lengthy process while other airline employees pass swiftly and freely through side doors and other unstaffed entrances by entering a simple 3-4 digit code or swiping their ID badges.

Some or most of these "other" airport employees are not required to pass the strict background checks required for employment as an airline pilot and yet they are still allowed to pass, without shoe removal or an overly-intrusive "pat down" into and out of the secure area at will.

I urge you, as soon as possible on your legislative calendar, to implement, properly fund and staff "CREWPASS" as a standardized platform across our nation's airports so that airline crew members, including flight attendants, may enjoy equal treatment to that of their co-workers when requiring entrance to the secure area of the airport.

I understand that cost-cutting is a hot button issue during the mid term. I feel that the dollars saved by implementing "CREWPASS" nationwide will be greater in number than the dollars spent by leaving things as they are today.

I have successfully and repeatedly used "CREWPASS" at the Pittsburgh (KPIT) and Baltimore (KBWI) airports. I look forward to using "CREWPASS" nationwide.

Thank you for your time and service.

 

[densoo]

I sent the following:

I am an airline pilot who must endure the security screening process several times per week... including shoe removal.........

Ben Franklin, that was a nice message. I copied it and sent it myself. Hope you don't mind. I'm sending one a day until we get CrewPass.

 

[densoo]

Generic Response but

that's a good thing. It means they're getting so many inquiries on this matter that they've got a canned response ready to go. They are hearing the rumble.

Thank you for sharing your views about the use of millimeter-wave scanners, also known as body image scanners, at airports nationwide.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is increasing the number of millimeter-wave scanners in airports around the country. This new technology is able to detect concealed plastic and ceramic weapons as well as explosives that evade traditional metal detectors.

However, passengers who feel uncomfortable being screened by the body image scanner may decline to go through and will be patted down by a TSA officer as an alternate security measure.


I support bolstering the safeguards in place to prevent terrorists from entering our country. However, it makes sense to explore whether there are strategies other than millimeter-wave scanners that could be employed to discover concealed explosives and other weapons that are not detectable by traditional methods. Should relevant legislation be considered by the Senate, I will keep your views in mind.

Thank you again for getting in touch with me.


Sincerely,

xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
United States Senator

 

[maru657]

Trash crew pass, Just allow crewmembers to pass security with a company issued ID.

 

[densoo]

Sully on Hardball followed by TSA Adminstrator

Here's the clip: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#40242012
Just the first minute or two is the pilot part, the rest is the usual.

Sully talks about pilots not needing to go through, anchor misdirects his comments, applying it to the general public.

TSA Administrator follows and says, "I agree with many of things that Sully mentioned....I hope to have an announcement about a good way forward as it pertains to the pilots in the very near future."

"Very near future." It is near! No more xray, patdown, bag check, screening by Christmas, maybe even sooner!

Keep those emails going to your congressmen. This has got to be pushed all the way up the hill. We'll never have this chance again with public attention, congressional inquiry, and media focus. It's a fleeting thing. Next week they'll be on to the next crisis. Right now, they're on this one. Keep it going.

 

[Skybus]

Hmmmm isnt that what we used to do? Stopped once an employee brought a gun onboard and killed the crew. Fixed that didnt they. Same employee in LAX could still do exactly the same thing through the back door they ALL use. It is ONLY Crew that pass through security and are fondled. How about a little kiss with that?

Bus

Trash crew pass, Just allow crewmembers to pass security with a company issued ID.

 

[GuppyWN]

Done.

Gup