Originally Posted by
thump
He said there was nothing special about the CRJ with respect to ASE and that Skywest was briefing a no-go around approach in certain circumstances for that field. Perhaps a Skywest guy can speak to this, but I was told that below a predefined altitude, if they lost an engine, it was briefed that they would land no matter what. If the runway was closed suddenly, then they would land on a taxiway.
Not true. There’s always a possibility to do a go around, even single engine at max gross weight at any altitude and it is always briefed.
Originally Posted by
thump
When I asked about doing the same thing as skywest with our jets, I was told that it was a "union issue". That "skywest could put the best pilots on the ASE flights" and that our union wouldn't allow us to have a special group that is qualified separately. (yeah, it's a union problem, LOL) It was determined that "no go around approaches" were outside our risk profile and that we would exit the ASE market as the Q400s left the fleet.
Pilots were junior manned into ASE flying if there were not enough volunteers. It’s not some “top gun” of the airlines or anything. The majority of the pilots at SkyWest can bid and qualify for ASE flying if they desire and their seniority can hold it.