SkyWest CRJ Altitude Restriction

[RobertS975]

After an apparent stall by a CRJ at FL390 back in April, the FAA has imposed altitude restrictions on SkyWest CRJs, apparently all variants. The FL280 restriction on the CRJ200 is particularly onerous from an operational standpoint.

The original incident sounds like a coffin corner stall.

FAA Imposes Safety Limits on SkyWest After April Incident - Bloomberg Business (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-14/faa-imposes-safety-restrictions-on-skywest-after-april-incident)

A Bumpier, Lower Ride for SkyWest (http://airwaysnews.com/blog/2015/07/06/a-bumpier-lower-ride-for-skywest/)

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Old news, has been amended since

[LTCTerry]

Just watched an online news story.

"The pilots managed to restart the engines and level off at 27,000 feet."

How clueless are these people?

[Capt. Manuvar]

I flew with a lot of ex-US regional CRJ pilots at a former outfit. 95% of them lacked any reasonable knowledge of the aircraft performance at any phase of flight.
Most of them don't even don't know what optimum or maximum altitude is.

I'm sure the FAA imposed the restriction on them until they properly educated their pilots.