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OUR READERS WRITE Real issue is safety Will boomerang return The Acton Free Press June B5 1976 and would like to participate in this event if it la to be held I thank you Tor your consideration of this request and look forward to your reply So many words have been written during the past 10 days regarding the bilingual air ground communications issue many of them hollow words half truthful words and some outright false words Granted there have been a few well written accounts of the situation but for the most part the tendency has been to discuss the ch English ramifications rather than the real issue which is safety in bilingual air ground communications in Canada And the two are totally different concepts Let us for a moment stop and consider the role of a professional airline pilot in todays Onemustbemadeaware of the fact that only the most competent pilots are employed by the country com mercial airlines And this achievement has been preceded by countless hours of ground school as well as hundreds of hours or flying time Therefore it is safe to assume that the airline pilots of the v or Id are the most pro fessional proficient people in the world of aviation Beyond this it is also a Tact of aviation that all pilots are governed by an Act of Parliament known as the Aeronautics Act which simple slates that the pilot in com mand has the full and sole responsibility for the safely of his flight Now let us go one step further and take a hypothetical airline trip anywhere at all Once on board the pilot in command an he will not take this particular flight due to a mechanical malfunction or a series of severe thunderstorms a fault the electrical system or whatever This is what he is paid to do exercise his profes sional judgement and technical expertise to gel you from Point A to Point B in the safest way possible Now who in the name of san would be foolish enough to insist the pilot take off in any of the above circum stances the fact that he wouldnt anyway is Irrelevant and who would be arrogant enough lo feel his layman s point of view should take precedence over the profes Onl a man who didn fully the seriousness of the safety tor or madman This hypothetical situa is a direct parallel to the issue of safety which is at slake at present Regardless of what some politicians would have you think the bilingual air ground communications debate is no more a political issue or a French Eng lish issue than if the safety factor were of a mechanical nature It is a safety issue wherein the pilots across Canada and ultimately the pilots of the world have collectively decreed that the safest envir on merit in which to fly is a umhngual one and why should they be party lo a system thai would find them degrading one of the safest flight environments in the world namely Canadian airspace simply to pacify a fcv misguided politicians with realistic political aspirations It is most interesting to note that our own Federal MP Frank has been insensitive to the pleas of his Although many of his constituents arc pilots and controllers who have repeatedly met with him and telephoned him to explain the safely aspects and to point out that the Aeronautics Act takes precedence over the Official Languages Act which incidentally is the stand taken by Languages Commissioner Keith Spicer he continues to uphold he Party line and state simply that his attitude is unchanged and that the Transport Minister Otto Lang will Implement into Air Traffic Control only when it is proven safe by a Commission The pilots and controllers again I stress exercising their perogative under the Aeronautics Act have already stated it is unsafe so how can a Fran Judge from Quebec and a Judge from Calgary who Is allegedly a bilingual ism sympathizer who together may or may not have technical knowledge of the field of aviation be expected to evaluate the situa in a more professional objective unemotional way than the members of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association Rubbish And Dr Philbrook should realize this but he seems committed lo bilingual ism at any costs Here is a man who was a committed abol itionist in the Capital Punishment debate fully capable of exempting a premeditated killer from the death penalty Yet now an airline crew and passengers innocent by stand in this political arena risk a mid air collision for a political cause Somehow i the parallel is not compatible and may I suggest he re- ink his priorities Here Is a man who also Informed me at a meeting I attended some two months hack that he was elected by you his constituents to use his good judgment on all issues and not to take the views of his constituents back to Parliament Good judgment he calls it Lack of backbone is what I call it Does he honestly believe that his good j judgment in this issue is a more credible J stance than the good judgment of pilots Bui pulling the Dr Otto J Langs and the Pierre aside possibly you would be interested in how your Liberal Government has evaluated the demand for bilingual Air Traffic Control in Canada Quite apart from the false not ion that a demand should necessarily j lead to a change In the format ion of a Task Force was implemented by the Ministry of Transport to study the implications of using French in Air Traffic Control The Task Force held public meetings at 10 locations in the of Quebec two in Northern Ontario one in Alberta and one in British Columbia This means that 6 of the 10 provinces and both Territories in addition to the populated Southern Ontario area were vir tually ignored And what of the number of people de- J mindine French Air Traffic Control The MOT based its on the- demand for French elicited by a bilingual questionnaire mailed lo licensed pilots in Quebec to which there was a per cent i response Just pilots or a mere per cent of the pilots to whom the questionnaire was senl indicated they would chose to use French in Air Traffic Control There is a very clear Englishonly majority here among he only group in which one could expect lo find a wish for French A C So it comes down to the fact that pilots out of a of Statistics Canada licensed pilots in Canada would choose to speak French that about l per cent Those are only two of the many glaring discrepancies between fact and what Mr 1 Otto Lang would have the public believe about bilingual air ground ions and the Government guarantees about putting safety first Pamela Sheldon Dear Sir I would like to enquire boomerang throwing competition that is ti be held In Acton sometime in July What are the dates of the competition who is sponsoring it and haw does one register for If I wrote the Acton Chamber of Com some two months ago but unfort I have not yet received a reply I am an ardent boomerang thrower myself Yours very truly I Editor note If anyone can answer this gentlemans question will he or she please phone the Free Press and let us know too We want to be there Words travel far The Editor The Free Press Dear Sir Some weeks ago my Idler Somebodys Mother was clipped from your paper by someone and sent to Florida A pupil of mine sixty years ago at SS No received it and sent me a card Here are her comments I remember that poem in our Reader and It was always one of my favorite poems She added that it was nice of those schoolboys to guide me across the street May I add that one never knows how far a kind word or deed is going lo travel As one expresses it Our echoes roll from soul lo soul Yours truly Milroy Memories of Acton Willow Avenue Milton Ontario The Editor Free Press Acton Ontario At this lime I would like to express my thanks to everyone in Acton especially the pupils their parents and he staff of Bennett school During my years as vice principal at the school I have formed many friendship with pupils and parents and have been most impressed by their helpful spirit The willing way in winch has donated llieir lime and energies towards all manner of school activities has helped immensely in making Bennett a pleasant and stimulating atmosphere for both pupils and staff I would especially like to express my hanks to Helen and Eric reporters the I rce Press who have covered school events so thoroughly and enthusiastically As I complete my last week al the school I am left with many warm and satisfying memories of the past years in Many thanks to all of you A Vice Principal July program If you re looking for some thing to do the weekends of July I July 5 Wildlife Centre is one place to go Every Saturday and Sun day for those three weeks an interpretation program call Conservation For People By People will be presented courtesy of the Region Conservation Authority The of the program is per ear with open hours from 10 a to m The purpose of the program is to promote a greater un of the endeavors of ihc Conservation Ihough slide and film ore tllni These slides and films will be shown regularly in Ihe Wildlife Centre Auditorium Films are One Day in May water control i Port ners about Conservation Authority 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