Jan/Feb '06: Vol 20: Issue 4

QUICK JUMP:

Outside the courtroom with the NY11

COVER STORY:

Members head for Capitol Hill at NATCA in Washington 2006

January's 2006 NATCA in Washington conference event was one for the history books.  Nearly 400 air safety professionals gathered in Washington, D.C., to personally brief their elected officials on the union's most pressing issues.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

• Presidential Perspective
• 2006 Archie League Medal of Safety Winners
• Outside the courtroom with the NY11
• The NATCA Safety Hotline
• Employee Profiles: NATCA headquarters veterans 
• CTI students react apprehensively to Senate Report on HR3058 

• How many is not enough? Controllers adjust to the agency's new increased staffing requirement for midnight shifts
• Focus on Safety: short runways
• NATCA Academy
• LR Source
• How does Section 226 of PL 108-176, Aviation Reauthorization Act, affect air traffic controller retirement?