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ALPA D1-7-3000 AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION 55TH STREET & CICERO AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60638 PORTSMOUTH 7-1400 AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.-C.I.O INT'L March 19, 1968 Mr. G. D. Goss, Chairman ALPA "Age 60" Committee 3045 Carson Street Aurora, Colorado 80010 Dear Gerry: As I indicated to you by phone the day following our meeting, I have grave misgivings regarding the new approach taken with Mike Gitt's petition. Originally I believe it was planned as essentially an individual petition, fortified with additional medical examinations and with Committee reassessment and evaluation of the total "age 60" program following the results of the petition. Obviously the present program has broader ramifications. I do believe the petition, as revised, is much better than the one we had the morning of the 8th. However, it still raises some basic questions, at least for me. I am concerned with three areas. 1. The content and possible results of the petition itself. 2. The effect of the petition on the total "age 60" program, largely because we did not have time to evaluate other relevant developments. 3. The effect of the petition on other, and equally important, Association programs. I would like to explain the reasons for my concern, some of which were briefly discussed during the severely limited time available to us as a Committee and others which have arisen since I have had an opportunity to adequately study the revised petition and review it with the Aeromedical Coordinating Committee which discussed it this morning. Re the Revised Petition. I have already indicated I think the revised petition is better than the original. However, I still do not know where we are going to get substantial evidence to support our case. If the other Committee members or any one else has that data, I would very much like to see it for it also could make a major contribution toward achieving relaxation in several other critical medical licensing areas. The best case for the fail-safe crew, insofar as incapacitation is concerned -- and this I believe is the heart of the age 60 problem -- that I know of was stated in a paper I wrote "SCHEDULE WITH SAFETY" 433