Building Support For The Pilots Bill of Rights 2?
The EAA has done a wonderful job with their Rally Congress program. The website is very easy for people to send a letter to their House rep and their Senator.
Like all organizations, Congress will respond to the "squeakiest wheel" first. So my suggestion is we build the size of the wheel that is squeaking. EAA has given us the tool to do that with the weblink. We can do the rest with our own personal network and email address books.
This is an email I drafted to send to my family, friends and co-workers. Some of you may want to write something different. But you get the general gist.
If we consider how many friends, relatives, colleagues at work, etc. that EAA members have that would take 2 minutes out to do this as a favor to them, that number gets pretty LARGE.
The one thing all those people have in common is this is an outdated, arcane law that is costing them money as taxpayers to leave on the books. That's an additional reason for them to want to take the 2 minutes required.
My thoughts. Thanks for reading.
-Buzz
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"Dear Family & Friends,
Many of you may know that flying has been a passion for me. Many of you have taken a flight with me.
There is an outdated FAA law on the books regarding medical requirements for pilots like me. The effect of this outdated law is illogical.
The effect is the government can as equally qualified & skilled to take my family for a Sunday drive or a Sunday flight. But it can view me not equally medically fit to take them for a Sunday drive or a Sunday flight. That makes no sense.
There is a bill in Congress right now to get rid of this outdated law. It has bipartisan support. The law says if I’m medically fine to take my family for a drive, then I’m medically fine to take my family for a flight.
I’d appreciate it if you’d help get the law passed so I can continue to enjoy flying with my family.
I hope you’ll also help get it passed as fellow taxpayer. This bill will eliminate the wasteful government spending required to monitor and enforce this outdated law.
To help get this bill passed, I’d appreciate it if you'd take 2 minutes to click on this link. It’ll automatically send a letter to your Congressperson and Senators and ask them to support the bill that changes this law.
Thanks for your help!
http://govt.eaa.org/17422/support-pilots-bill-rights-2/
-Buzz
P.S. This outdated medical law is only for non-professional pilots like me. Airline pilots are under completely separate medical requirements.
Expanding the Reach of This Idea
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Originally Posted by
Todd copeland
This is exactly what I did right away. I asked all of my friends and relatives to write in and why. I provided them with the link to make it easy. Also made a plea on Glasair aircrafts forums as well as pilots of America forums to drive the support. After that, I also used my limited social media exposure, to ask people to write in and also provided the link there as well. I believe I've managed to get about 20-25 people to do it, maybe a lot more. If all of us do this, think where we can be in this fight.
Fantastic Todd!!
One suggestion. Why don't you send your post to Sport Aviation as a "letter to the editor". There would be a lot of eyes reading your firsthand results there and thinking about what they could do themselves. It would be a timely letter right now with Jack Pelton just having talked about PBOR2 in his column this month.
-Buzz
