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VOL. VIII, NO. 9
THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL — ALL OVER PIEDMONTLAND
SEPTEMBER, 1966
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Crews'
News
Editor’s Note: Effective with this
issue, Crews’ News will be a regular
Piedmonitor feature. We have been
working towards the addition of
'^his column to your paper for
wseveral months. The editor hopes
you will enjoy these first hand re
ports from our high flying folks.
Up ’til now we’ve had a hard time
keeping up with them, but we hope
that situation will cease to exist.
KNOXVILLE KNOWS
By Gene Sharp
Greetings from the “Bush
Pilot Country.” The first of Sep
tember seems to bring out the
gims in Tennessee. Bob Thoma
son, Bill Tilley and Gene Rum-
felt were among the many hun
ters on the opening day of dove
season. Their success is another
story, but with Bill being an ex
game warden they did at least
have the law on their side. Our
Chief, Roy Brown, is in Canada
trophy hunting again. Last year
he got all the trophies he wanted
except a ram horn goat. That’s
the target this year. Our own
“Paw Cartwright”, Buddy Payne,
has a new-born on his Blount
County “Ponderoso”. Through
the skilled hands of some way-
layed “company” laborers and
lots of that good “branch water”
that runs through the farm, the
barn has practically been com
pleted. Glen Harr (Major) and
Gary Perry (Captain) give us
lots of good nights sleep know
ing that our “Guard” (Tennessee
Air National) is awake. They fly
the \mits KC-97 tankers on air
refueling missions. If fate and
the CAB don’t turn against us,
we hope to produce some new
“Bush Pilot” Captains in the
near future. Charlie Peavler,
Larry Braun and Gene Shai*p
recently completed the necessary
upgrade training thanks to the
patience of “Chief Charlie”
Brown and our accommodating
FAA Inspectors. Before we close,
we would like to thank our Pied
monitor editor for the interest
in the flight crews and making
space available for some news
from the cockpit. We’ll try to
give you a more complete news
coverage from Tennessee Coun
try in the next issue.
DCA DOINGS
We received another Capt.
Tadlock missive a couple of
weeks ago. It seems that several
folks think that there should be
more news about crews in the
Piedmonitor. We don’t know
-why Capt. Tadlock thought Gene
•Smith would make a reporter,
but the “letter” came his way
anyhow. We’re supposed to write
about DCA crews. Any and all
suggestions will be appreciated.
DCA crews are really looking
forward to the day when we
move into our new airport crew
room. We have heard that we
will have room to walk through
as well as have a place to put our
flight kits. We will even have
new furniture and a table where
flight plans can be worked on.
Quite a change. Due to Jet Age
Progress, DCA will lose its
schedule representative next
month when Bob Koontz starts
to 727 school.
We overheard in operations
that A1 Booth and others worried
about 700 on the Dow Jones. F/0
Foxman is wondering where he
can borrow a million dollars for
New York Route Is Finalized
The Civil Aeronautics Board has issued two orders affecting Piedmont’s application for service
to New York City.
The first of the Board*s orders handed down on September 9th made final the earher show
cause” order granting Piedmont authority to serve New York.
Equipment Ordered
For 737'% FH-227's
Piedmont plans to equip its
new Boeing 737’s and Fairchild
227’s with Bendix avionics sys
tems, ordered at a total price of
more than $800,000. The systems
include the RDR-IE weather ra
dar. For operations on the 737,
the ADF uses “large digital read
out displays and advanced self
test capability.”
Also included in the order are
new self-calibrating radio alti
meters (ALA-51A) and “second
generation” VHF COM/NAV sys
tems. Self-test and calibration
features were major factors in
selection of the systems, reports
L. A. Watson.
his construction business. Prob
lems, problems!!
October should be an interest
ing month for Capt. Pierce and
the schedule. During the first
week Captains Rieger, Kelly,
Brunelle, and Smith will be at
tending the Alpha Air Safety
Forum in Los Angeles.
WILMINGTON WONDERINGS
By Jim Conner
Now that we live in a modern
world where a vast network of
communication systems keep
track of our every desire, it
seems it would not be necessary
for a First Officer to board an
airplane a few minutes early and
file a flight plan that was pro
grammed on the FAA’s com
puters months ago, and who, on
his inrange report, reconfirmed
their intentions with the Com
pany personnel. One would be
inclined to think that this vast
communications network was in
vain, or the only apparent way
to get anything done is by con
stant repetition.
As we approach a new horizon
in passenger service with the
larger equipment, it becomes
more obvious that the Flight At-
tendents will have a more diffi
cult time INSPIRING others to
do their particular jobs. Even if
the Flight Attendents know the
through count, individual desti
nation, local boardings, and cor
rectly advise the passengers the
length of a stop, it does not ac
complish anything if they are
not correctly informed as to how
many passengers are going to
board; they can’t be expected to
keep up with the passengers
fi;om three or four flights at the
same time. It is obvious that a
gate check-in is needed more
than ever. We must forget the
DC-3 days as we have the horse
and buggy and seek more mod
ern ways to accommodate the
growing demand for our service
Wonderful Wilmington is
about to close another fun-filled
summer on the beach. Capt.
Berryhill had a good year in the
sail boat business, and our drug
gist says his sales on nerve pills
are really off now that the
temperatures are down around
London and Rocky Mount.
Rumor has it, the fellows at
Wrightsville Beach have found a
diamond mine. (How about it
girls?) Cupid put his mark on
Capt. Smith this month.
Leon Fox has just happily
passed the 20,000-hour mark.
Vice President H. K. Saunders
said, “This is perhaps the most
outstanding development in the
history of our company. The de
cision by the Board to give Pied
mont this route extension as we
proposed, which includes service
to Dulles International Airport
in Washington, is most gratify
ing.”
The second order by the CAB
proposed that Piedmont’s sub
sidy be reduced by approximate
ly $238,000 annually. Thus, the
Ben Bailey Is Named
Sales Rep. for Tri-Cities
Ben P. Bailey, formerly a
Piedmont agent at Tri-Cities, has
been named Sales Representa
tive for that area. He replaces
Bill Dolan who has transferred
back to Wilmington.
Before joining Piedmont four
years ago Bailey was employed
by the Johnson City Press Chron
icle. He is a graduate of Science
Hill High School in Johnson
City, Tennessee. The son of Mrs.
Richard L. Cox of Johnson City,
Bailey also attended East Ten
nessee State University.
Mrs. Bailey is the former
Natalie Sizemore of Johnson
City. They have two daughters.
During his years of military
service Bailey was a tactics in
structor at the West Point Mili
tary Academy at West Point,
New York.
Bailey will assume his new |
duties October 1.
New York route would be a sub
sidy reduction route. In effect
this means that the New York
entry should be profitable
enough to reduce the subsidy
needs of Piedmont’s existing
operations.
This latter order allows nine
days for objections to be filed
with regard to the subsidy reduc
tion.
After the nine day period,
barring the absence of objec
tions, which were not filed
by Piedmont, the Board will
make final the subsidy adjust
ment. At this time the Board
will issue the certificate, which
is in effect Piedmont’s license to
serve New York City. The certifi
cation order will also designate
the date after which service can
be commenced by Piedmont into
New York.
BEN BAILEY
Piedmont Is Host For Meeting
Of Local Service Purchasing Agents
Piedmont Airlines was host for
a meeting of local service airline
purchasing agents in Winston-
Salem September 13-15th.
The Parkway Chalet in the
Twin City was headquarters for
the group. Other than the airline
purchasing agents, representa
tives of a number of airline parts
manufacturing firms participat
ed.
Airlines attending ranged from
Aloha, in Hawaii and Alaska Air
lines to Caribbean Atlantic and
Braniff International.
PURCHASING AGENTS MEET — From left, Warren Stellar of Braniff,
Howard Fowler of Northern Consolidated, M. V. Hellesstedt of Aloha
and Piedmont's W. W. Barber talk over a presentation.
PAI Credit Union
Assets Exceed
$1 Million Mark
Freda Zappia, Piedmont CrediX
Union office manager, has an
nounced that 16 years of opera
tion brings Credit Union assets
beyond $1 million mark.
The Piedmont Aviation Credit
Union was organized under a
North Carolina State Charter on
December 10, 1949, with 61 mem
bers and total assets of $869.00.
At the end of five years of opera
tion, the year 1954 closed with a
total membership of 554 and as
sets of $90,800.23.
The Credit Union continued to
grow. The year 1960 closed with
a total membership of 872 and
assets totaling $284,991.
At the close of July 31, 1966
membership totaled 1700, with
assets of $1,043,502.54.
“The success and growth of
your Credit Union can be at
tributed to numerous factors,”
said Miss Zappia, “a few of
which are: The continued pat
ronage of the members, the co
operation and teamwork of the
Board of Directors and Commit
tees, the continued cooperation
of Piedmont Aviation, Inc., and a
devoted office staff.”
To keep pace with this growth
and progress, changes and im
provements in the operation of
the Credit Union are being made
when the Board of Directors
finds it necessary in order to
provide the needed service to its
members.
“We are looking forward to
further progress and growth in
the future years,” concluded
Miss Zappia.
NOT FOR PROFIT
NOT FOR CHARITY
BUT FOR SERVICE