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To All Members     —11—      June 25, 1942

and AA excluded). In this way, your copy of the employment agreement will be kept strictly up to date and each pilot will know exactly what the salaries, rules, and working conditions are that he is working under. In other words, it will all be in one place and up to date. 

We are again having a little trouble with some Civil Air Regulations medical section revisions. I refer particularly to the following section:

"Periodic physical examinations. A certificated air line transport pilot shall not pilot an aircraft in flight unless, within the 6-month period immediately preceding such flight, he has met the physical requirements of this Part by passing an examination, given by an authorized air line medical examiner of the Administrator: Provided, That the holder of an air line transport pilot certificate may, in lieu of each alternate periodic physical examination by such medical examiner of the Administrator, submit evidence satisfactory to the Administrator that he has within the preceding 15 days met at least the physical requirements prescribed in this Part by passing a physical examination prescribed by the air carrier by which he is employed."

This section was proposed by the Aero Medical Division of the CAA and placed in effect by the CAB without the knowledge of our organization or anyone else in the field, including the air line companies and the regional air line inspectors. They just did it. I have raised all sorts of fuss and today I was told that the CAB will shortly reconsider this section of the CAR.

In short, we battled for years to unscramble company doctors from regular officially designated CAA medical examiners and finally were successful. No sooner were we successful when certain forces got busy to try to mix them back together again. While this fight is going on, my advice to all the pilots is as follows: Take all the medical examinations required to maintain your air line transport pilots certificate from no one except a regular CAA examiner — I mean, an examiner who has no connection whatsoever with an air line and is not an employee of an air line. The argument against this advice will be that you may save a little money by going to a company doctor for your CAA semi-annual examinations, but we say that in our opinion it is far better to spend the $6.00. We don't harbor any grievances against company doctors, but to mix company aero medicine with CAA aero medicine is definitely wrong. The Association has gone on record so many times on this we have lost count. Now it is up to the members to carry the ball by not going to company doctors for any CAA examinations until we can again get the CAA straightened out. 

We are continually on the watch for what we choose to term petty chiseling. Recently, National Airlines came out and said it was going to employ its newest qualified copilots on Army cargo runs as first pilots, but they would not be paid first pilots' salaries. National planned to pay them top copilot salaries. The company pleaded innocence as instigators of the above proposal, and said that the Army wished this done because the pilots that were to be used had not completed the necessary flying to get a rating on the equipment involved.