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ALPA

AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION
DENVER JOINT COUNCIL OFFICE
INTERSTATE 70 AND CHAMBERS ROAD
ROUTE 3 BOX 31
DENVER, COLORADO 60010
(303) 343 7979
AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.-C.I.O.

INT'L 
3045 Carson Street
Aurora, Colorado 80010

April 8, 1968

Mr. Harry Orlady 
312 South Park Road
LaGrange, Illinois

Dear Harry:

In answer to your letter of March 19th, I must first of all say that I was more than a little surprised to see that you are still not in accord with the objectives of the Age 60 program. In regard to your comment wher in you mentioned the fact that we have taken a new approach with Mike Gitt's petition, it is my understanding that this was the intent of the petition from the very outset, namely to afford Captain Gitt the opportunity to continue flying past age 60, and also see if a bridge cannot be made in the FAA's current procedure of retiring everyone at the arbitrary age of 60 years. It is my opinion that this is what the petition was meant to do and with a little forthright backing from this Committee and the rest of the Association it appears that we have an excellent opportunity to succeed in this goal. In answer to the three areas in which you are gravely concerned, I would answer them in the following way.

The first one wherein you are concerned with the content and possible result of the petition, I too am concerned with the possible result of the petition inasmuch as I don't believe anyone is fully aware of how the petition itself will resolve until the final outcome has been resolved. I do not believe that we have a pat case not do I believe we would have a pat case after the information from any and all Standing Committees or any other studies, which I might add at this time seem to be next to nothing, are completed. I believe if we are going to succeed, we have to go out and try to convince the FAA that we have proven to them over the past eight years that their idea of retiring individuals at the arbitrary age of 60 is not a sound decision and we have reason to believe that we can show this through our past record. 

Answer to part two, wherein you were concerned with the effect of the petition on the total age 60 program, I was not aware of the fact that there is any other Age 60 Program inasmuch as since 1950 it has been in our Policy Manual that we will strongly oppose any compulsory organizations or groups, we are charged however with attempting to overturn the compulsory Age 60 ruling established by the FAA.

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