[kellwolf]

I can tell ya right now we've got an OE CA who's butt was saved by ALPA. Here's why:

ALPA pushed to have our ASAP program installed in order to spot trends (anonymously) in order to improve over all safety. Well, this guy had an FO for IOE, and she messed up the landing pretty badly....as in things scraped runway that aren't supposed to. They were ready to hang this guy out to dry....then they saw the ASAP data. Normal rudder pressures were in the 5 psi range. This crazy loon of an FO hit FIFTEEN PSI on rudder inputs 5 feet off the ground. It all happened in less than 2 seconds, and all agreed that even though he had his feet on the rudder pedals, there was little if anything he could have done in order to avert the scrape. So, he gets to keep his job and no paperwork filed. Why? B/c the ALPA program showed there was nothing he could have done with hard data. Without that, the company woulda strung him up (even more so since he's pretty outspoken).