NAATS Headquarters Email Update

Volume 2, #8,

November 15, 2001

NAATS Alaskan Regional Director Alan Baker and I went to Chairman Don Young�s office at 1:30 this afternoon as scheduled but he was in conference on the Aviation Security Bill. His special assistant, a man I have talked with a number of times, met with us and we expressed our appreciation for the Chairman�s words but also our concern. We asked him to consider modifying the words to add strength. The changes we agreed on were to:

• Substitute �Flight Service Air Traffic Controllers� for �flight service station employees� and, to:
• Add the words �that accomplishes comparability with the other FAA air traffic controllers� to the last sentence.

He said he would take them to the Chairman.

I later met with Senator John Breaux�s staffer. He advised that a deal had just been struck on H.R. 3150 but wasn�t aware of the details. I left our material with him and our contact information. I�ll follow-up on both of these meetings.

Concerning the FSOSC � it now looks like the details will be 60 days in length. Please advise us if you want to withdraw your name because of the change. I talked with AT-2 Jeff Griffith and he agreed to support us, with overtime if necessary, to get the people we really want on these details.

Wally Pike