Originally Posted by
4thLevel
Fwiw -
The Feds have approved our etops program - manuals and training.
All that is left is for them to observe a series of mock tabletop flights involving flight ops/mx/dispatch etc. Then 6 actual validation flights - some with planned diverts.
Once you see us doing the proving runs, we're just days away from adding it to our ops specs. I would guess before the end of January.
Unless of course the check airman bone it up a la WATRS to SJU