RVR has been NOTAM'd inop for a while now at KFSD.

Not sure that's accurate but I'm sure it will all get sorted out in an investigation. The real question is why are you here being a douche? This would be like me going on the F9 forum and running my mouth about how you all have a ****ty contract and will be stuck in mediation for another 5 years. If it is none of your business and you don't know what you're talking about then just ****.

Yeah well having a ****ty contract does not equate to endangering the lives of a planeful of people. I have no tolerance for people who do stupid sh*t that is unsafe. Landing in heavy snow, RVR inop, 1/4 mi vis, direct gusting 27 kt xwind? Have some common sense! What happened to using good judgment as pilots? A/C limitations be damned. No way in hell I would attempt a landing in any commercial aircraft with the lives of the people behind me at stake.

If you were in your interview for the airline you are at now, and someone asked you if you'd land under those conditions, would you say yes?

My point is you are talking out your a$$ cause you weren't there so you don't know the conditions or the information the crew had. That's why they do an investigation. But from looking back at your post history you seem like a dbag so I doubt anything I say here will change that. Carry on

RCC of 5/5/5 and 1800rvr (with FD or AP) seems like the approach would be legal to me. I don’t know about the mad dog side of the house but on the bus we have a chart from the company that says our x-wind limitation with a rcc of 5/5/5 is between 38kts and 25kts depending on the depth of dry snow. Sounds like they were legal to shoot the app. and had landing data that said they had enough distance for the conditions, but the RCC was not as advertised, it sucks, but it sounds like they used all of the info at their disposal and made a decision within opspecs and FARs. just sucks that the RCC wasn’t accurate. Thankfully no one was hurt.

I didn’t realize you flew the 80 at F9. I’d love to hear more about what our procedures and limitations are. Post that METAR all you want. Tower reported RVR or vis is controlling. I’ve yet to see you post anything about any RCC values either (I’m assuming it doesn’t fit your narrative so why would you include it?!?).

Way to take cheap shots at your fellow pilots without knowing all of the facts. I’m sure you’re an absolute pleasure to fly with. You’ll make a fantastic management pilot one day (that’s not a compliment btw).

Wow you should get a job at the NTSB or FAA since your able to solve the whole thing by reading a news article and an a METAR. Or maybe you should tell your airline you should be head of flight standards since you are a much better pilot than anyone else. Then again maybe you should just pull your head out of your ass and admit you where a little premature about your conclusion here

You think the company's gonna keep badgering us to keep the operation going with the "is it safe? is it legal?" mantra?? Seems like there might be more to the equation.

Come on, use your head - just because something is legal doesnt make it safe. These guys shouldn't have even attempted an appch

Some really pitiful Monday quaterbacking from other pilots... Perhaps it must be aggravating for a crusty F9 pilot at the top of their sad payscale to be making less than a 2nd year G4 pilot, but being based in Denver doesn't make you the master of winter flying.

The ATC tapes are easily available online now to anyone who can grasp a google search. Have a quick listen before you throw your colleagues under the bus. Most of the info propagated on this thread is not accurate.