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Thursday, September 24, 1987/The Battalipn/Rage 3 1 State and Local FAA plans money-saving effort, dia will relocate Easterwood station ige ve her a moreii By Doug Driskell Staff Writer • I,, f 1° an effort to save money, the ,m\ !(m\ii>- fight service station at Easterwood lie court or piJ[H^Kp 0rt w -|] h)e relocated to the > her consider Montgomery County Airport near Hmroe Feb. 28, a Federal Aviation mple isjessica!'!i Administration official said, is finally decitfaifflThe relocation — part of a long- public, butsh term modernization plan initiated by r . . . , the FAA — will save money and pro- venide tOOa^p e better service to pilots in Col- ect that publit Station and around Texas, Bob mr {olloMngk:| Jolinson, manager of the FAA flight >pe it doesn't jfcrvice station at Easterwood said. . from otherpitB^ome pilots have other opinions Kn the relocation. Mike Villarreal, a in. j Hot and flight instructor for Exec- d l.keioendoj^ Aircra f t Services of Texas at 1 don tnett:i® sterwooc j w hen the service sorth s actions | moves it will take more time to file a themupaset flight plan. Hjohnson says, “Everybody wants the federal government to operate as economically as possible. After this consolidation, flight service op erators will be at three locations in Tffxas — Fort Worth, San Angelo, and Montgomery County.” ^Johnson said flight services pro vides in-flight and emergency orien tation to all aircraft personnel. ■“All these services can be com pleted by remote control — via ra- to salvage the.' ’ testy and opt: ie media cannid thing to hide nior joumk mist for The By Jenny Hynes Reporter —————-Akobody’s perfect, but in its first seven graduating classes, the Texas A&M Univer- College of Medicine has maintained a \md peaih perfect record for its students w r ho \ P ass the physician’s certification exam, an [M medical school dean said. [There’s never been a school that’s had a 0 percent pass rate,” said Dr. William E. lid, associate dean of student affairs for I College of Medicine. There have been failures at all the other lical schools in Texas,” he said. irable media . favorableeffd ia attentiontoh led public opic ] an outstanding >v standing brill ong. [Quid stop media expose Graphic by Susan C. Akin dio,” he said. “Therefore, it doesn’t matter where the operator is work ing from as long as the antennas are in the same place. “When we move, all of our radio equipment and antennas will remain on the field at Easterwood. The per son in charge of radio operations won’t be working at Easterwood. He will be at the Montgomery County Airport.” All pilots should register a flight plan with the flight service center be fore departing, he said. They also should ask for weather briefings for the areas in which they will be flying. Weather briefings are given over the telephone, face-to-face or by ra dio, Johnson said. The new automa ted system will eliminate the face-to- face briefings at Easterwood. “The one problem pilots have with the automated system is the elimination of face-to-face brie fings,” Johnson said. “They like to come in and look at the radar and weather charts for themselves. Now they will have to picture this infor mation in their heads.” A weather briefing given face-to- face takes two to three times as long as the same briefing given on the telephone, Johnson said. The auto mated system will take less time for each report, he said. When the weather is good in Col lege Station pilots usually don’t ask for weather briefings and Johnson said that leaves the flight service op erators with little to do except fill out weather charts. But at the same time weather is good in College Station, it could be stormy in Galveston and there could be a backlog of pilots wanting infor mation. The new system will allow operators to provide service to the wnole state instead of just one area. No jobs will be lost as a result of the automated system, Johnson said. All of the employees will either have a job in Montgomery County or may apply to work at any of the other sys tems. Villarreal said, “But part of the advantage of having a flight service in College Station is that it enables us to give them a flight plan. They can put it into the system in 15 to 20 minutes. If we have to call up Mont gomery County it can take an extra 20 minutes.” Johnson also agrees that it will take more time. He said on a bad day the pilots may have to wait up to 10 minutes. Kevin Manning, a pilot for Exec utive Aircraft Services, said it has been a great luxury for pilots to have the flight service station at Eas terwood, and that it has spoiled them. Manning said that now pilots are going to have to plan ahead like ev eryone else. To answer some of the questions pilots may have with the new system, there will be a series of meetings sponsored by the flight service sta tion, Johnson said. These meetings will be at the Ag gie Flying Club hanger, he said. One series of meetings will start Oct. 27 and the other series will begin Nov. 24. Faculty Senator says senior finals changes up to Student Senate By Drew Leder Staff Writer Dr. Don Russel, a representa tive of the Faculty Senate, told the Student Senate Wednesday that if there is to be a change in the se nior finals schedule, the Student Senate will have to initiate it. “As far as we’re concerned, it can be changed,” he said. Many senators expressed dis satisfaction over the days sched uled for finals and the Senate is researching the issue. The senior finals policy will be tested this semester, and sets the days for finals on Friday of dead week, Saturday, the following Monday and Tuesday. The Senate was also briefed on committee and Student Govern ment activities. Tom Black, academic affairs chairman, told the Senate that 264 new faculty members at Texas A&M will be invited to at tend yell rallies throughout the year so they can get a better un derstanding of the students and traditions at A&M. “They don’t understand us and they don’t understand our tradi tions,” Black said of the new fac ulty members. Black said he will meet Tues day with the Dean of Liberal Arts, Daniel Fallon, to discuss the pos sibility of including a fine arts program in that college. Brian Banner, vice-president for administration in the Student Senate, said the Student Govern ment will open a special events telephone line for students to call to get information on campus ac tivities. Banner also informed the Sen ate that two committees, a drug and alcohol committee and a women’s issues committee, both consisting of faculty members and students, are being formed. Following the Senate meeting, the speaker of the Senate and committee chairmen heard ap peals from three students who had been removed from the Sen ate earlier this week after missing two meetings. All three were re instated after explaining why they had missed the meetings. A&M medical school grads excel on certification exam While none of the actual scores is made public, only two A&M medical school stu dents out of 235 graduates since 1981 have failed any portion of the exam, he said. No one has failed the entire exam. “That’s a great record,” Ward said. The standardized exam, which Texas medical school graduates must pass for medical certification, is called the Feder ated Licensing Exam, or FLEX. This exam is divided into three parts: ba sic sciences, clinical sciences and jurispru dence (medicine and the law). Betty Williams, registrar at the Baylor College of Medicine, said, “This is the uni form licensing exam administered states of the nation at the same time.” all Ty Newton, coordinator for student af fairs at the A&M College of Medicine, said the certification exam is administered about two weeks after medical school graduation every year. “Between 1,100 and 1,200 students take the exam each year, since there are that many slots in the state’s medical schools,” he said. Ward believes A&M medical school grad uates have an outstanding record because of the small class sizes. “We control our number of admissions,” Ward said. “We accept just 48 students per class and have between 29 and 44 graduat ing each year. It’s almost individualized at tention. “The University of Texas system schools have around 200 students in each class. “I think the smaller classes (at A&M) give a more in-depth education, the same as in undergraduate classes.” A&M’s medical school is the newest in Texas. It also has the advantage of being on the campus of a major high-technology univer sity, Ward said. Besides A&M’s College of Medicine, there are six other medical schools in Texas. The University of Texas system claims four medical schools: the UT Health Sci ence Center at San Antonio, the UT Health Science Center at Houston, the UT Medical Branch at Galveston and Southwestern Medical School. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center complete the list of medical schools in Texas. 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