FAA Ops Specs
>What precisely was the charge? "Unsportsmanlike conduct"? "Bringing PSA into disrepute"?
Most US Ops Specs for FAR 121 operations do not allow Contact Approaches. The Ops specs must specifically list the approved types of approaches by exact name (VOR/DME, NDB/DME, etc.). We just had ASR and SRE approaches removed from our list of approved approaches, although with Captain emergency authority....