Thank you to everybody that is here thank you for being here and support of the safe Sky Zone. I wanna give a special thanks to captain of the Airline Pilots Association, Alpa Captain Brown, the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association, Capa Highland Park with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Atlas, Local, 20, - 750, and all other stakeholders Other groups that are here, including heroic commercial pilot captain Sally's Collin Burger who support we are grateful to have on this important legislation. Thank you also to my colleagues Representative Catco Cartwright and Fitzpatrick who are close sponsoring this crucial crucial legislation and again I will remind you this is a bipartisan piece of legislation, first and foremost. Go without saying a cargo and cruise on Cardinal Plains deserve to be safe in their workplace. yet the rules in place to help keep cargo pilots safe and free from foot fatigue our weaker than the rules for their commercial airline counterparts. There's absolutely no reason that there's double standards should exist for flight duty and rest regulations. Violence have difficult schedules they were long hours and their jobs require an alert mind and a high level of attentiveness. If cargo pilots are fatigued and flying under unrealistic pressure. That is a threat to the lives of those pilots. The crews and the public at large, not only that but cargo pilots share airspace with the rest of us. They're fatigue and impact everyone they encounter in the air commercial passenger. Lights pilots and everyone on the ground as well and we know that the safety and rest measures for commercial pilots known as part 117 are based on the latest science to combat fatigue and get pilots enough time to truly rest and recharge. We also know that the reason cargo pilots are not covered under this rule is not because of science or safety. It is because the Fbi. Has decided that implementing these standards for cargo pilots was not worth the cost. All would agree that keeping aviation worker safe is worth it. keeping our skies secure for everyone is worth it. The cargo accident rate is higher higher than the accident rate in passenger operations. We can change that. that is why we are here. Introducing the bipartisan Save Sky's Act today this building man's one strong level of safety. Raised cargo pilot rest standards to meet the standards of commercial pilots already in place. This bill is a common sense bill and straightforward. We must close the loophole address safety the safety double standard and ensure safe skies. We are taking the first step to do that today with this legislation now I would like to introduce captain Joe. President of Alabama. Thank you everyone and good morning and thank you for being here on behalf of the more than 60 - 3000 members of the Airline Pilots Association. I wanna commend representatives Cargo Cartwright cat go, and if this patriotic for introducing the safe side of 2019 when it passed this legislation will make air transportation safer for everyone in the United States, Passengers And importantly, communities on the ground as the world's largest non-governmental Aviation Safety Organization, Albert, is pleased to be here today with the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association, The Independent Pilots Association and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to express in a Unified voice the support from all pilots who fly cargo and flight passengers as human beings. Airline pilots are all affected by the TV, regardless of whether we fly passengers. We fly free physiology. It's the same for more than 30 years. I flew and served as a line. Check airman on the Athree 10 200 for FedEx Express and I can tell you from personal experience that were pilots Carrie behind them on the aircraft. Absolutely positively bears no influence. On how we experience fatigue cargo pilots by the same type of aircraft do the same air space and into the same airports as pilots who fly passengers cargo pilots use the same routes and runways operate two from and over the same communities as our passenger purposes sisters. Despite all this similarity, the accident data clearly shows. When it comes to safety, passenger and all cargo flakes are alarmingly alarmingly different. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. All cargo operations make up around seven percent of all F A R 120 - one operations here in the United States. While the same time the all cargo carrier major accident rate is more than seven times higher than Fashion perspective What That means, but this means is that if cargo operations where to fly the same amount as our passenger place on the R risk rate are you ready? it would be 270 - seven accidents to 10 years. There's something very wrong with that risk profile and it needs to be addressed so one of the most striking and preventable safety risk This unaccepted week high rate is the lack of science-based flight time duty time rules for pilots who find cargo. We know that this risk as already cost lives, we have lost colleagues and close friends. The National Transportation Safety Board has recognized fatigue as a factor in all cargo accidents in locations from Alabama in Ohio to Missouri and Florida. The fact is. The current regulations exclude pilots who fight only cargo from the FAA science-based flight and duty regulations and minimum rest requirements Make steak This creates a list for everyone who counts on safe air transportation here in the United States. You may ask why how well a system is only as safe as its weakest link. Failing to protect cargo pallets from fatigue is a weakness that threatens all all who share. National airspace and those who live below it and we know that the solution lies in Congress passing the safe Skies Act of 2019. It requires the Department of Transportation to ensure that the FDA's flight duty and rest requirements apply to all cargo operations in the same manner as they apply to passenger operations and thanks to the tremendous by partisan leadership. on introducing this legislation, we had an opportunity to address this disparity between cargo and passenger operations and help achieve. One level of safety across our air transportation system. We urge lawmakers to resist the pressures from special interests who put profit over safety and to act swiftly to pass the safe sky that of 2019, but also to do more to achieve one level of safety for all who depend on air transportation. Thank you again. Representative Calvert Hall Cartwright. Patrick We're introducing this pro safety bill to protect all who we lie on U S A Transportation. Thank you very much for your attention today. Captain and now I'd like to introduce captain Brown vice President of Canada. Good morning. My name is Bob Brown. I'm the Vice President of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association on behalf of Captain Larry Bruney. His previous commitment prevented him from being here today and the Capitals 30000 professional airline pilots. I'd like to thank representatives Kevin Carbo Hall in chiropractic for their leadership in the House of Representatives on this critical aviation safety legislation. For the one level of safety for our nation's passenger, cargo and commercial pilots and beliefs of the flight time duty time rules create a lower standard of oversight that's unacceptable and runs counter intuitive to improve safety. Fatigue does not discriminate between types of airline operations aircraft type being carried on the aircraft. This is particularly true for carb operators charter operators. And others are transport our nation's military personnel curriculum, Supplemental Airlines share the same airspace, airports, runways and taxi ways All Airlines, including pastor cares and should therefore be subject to the same safety regulations. There is no scientific foundation for these establishments of separate pilot duty and restrooms based on the types of operations they conduct allowing some operator staff rate outside the smug safety net is not crowded modern. Science is mandated by Congress in 2010 until flight duty and rest regulations are applied to all carpal cares and supplemental carriers. We will never have one level of safety, which absence Sandy places are patient system. a great risk we found Senator of Congressman Kevin Carbo and Carway furniture electricity that will provide for a single science-based National standard in the finance capital. Our support of the sky in industry standard rules for all Airlines, It is vitally important to ensure that the safety of our nation's transportation system remains fully support the continued efforts on the crucial piece of aviation safety legislation and endorses without delay again on behalf of the Coalition Barley Pilots Association. Thank you. Thank you to Representative Cathy Carol Hahn and Chiropractic. Thank you. And how about Kircher from Pilot International Teamsters Local 20 - 750. ladies and gentlemen problem doing third is most of these distinguished colleagues have already covered much of the church. so I'll keep my comments brief and to the point my name is Kevin. I'm here representing the International Brotherhood, Teamsters and Atlas Local 20 - 750. We fly 740 -sevens Across the country and more wide lot of people have never heard of us, but we are the tip of the sphere of fatigue because we do not have the work rolls that are colleagues that FedEx UPS and other carriers have so beginning I wanna thank and congratulate Congressman Carbo cat go and everybody involved for introducing safe skies. The same Scott's legislation today by target basis safety is. Democratic or Republican issue that is something that must be assured to all Americans equally. Second, the Central point of the bill is the urgent. To eliminate the time for vacation of the FAA rules and regulations for pilots, flying cargo and passenger aircraft, the bill sound logic is a fatigue pilot is a fatigue point, regardless of whether they fly passengers or cargo operations. One passenger and cargo operate as you've heard before in the same airspace, the same airport take off the same airport same run base in the same weather conditions over the same cities in daylight and nighttime conditions to make matters even more absurd the pilots that both passenger and cargo operations at the same time this week. And confusion regarding the different fatigue rules and to say that the are indeed, I think the authors of the OMB deeply flawed Cosmetic fit study, which the FAA has used to justify its dual set of fatigue rules never envision the circumstances affecting pilots like those atmosphere. The result has been an unintended number of violations due to the complex. Of the worlds, most importantly, our pilots that fly military cargo, one day and America's great military personnel. The next along with their families should be free from the effects of fatigue. These proper fatigue standards will help ensure that the pilots are rusted when they operate these critical missions in some America's airline industry should. Thank you very much. Again, I wanted to thank Alpha Kappa trustees of local 2750 for joining me today, Call it what you would like to call it a double standard a disparity, but this must be changed and again. This is about putting safety over profits and I remind everyone. This is a bipartisan bill and I wanna thank my co-authors Representative Kent Coat, Cartwright and Fitz. And with that, I just think this is a very important step forward in the interest of safety for everyone, those that flies air crews pilots and again the public at large. Thank you very much.