Netjets Europe Banned From Aspen?
 

Howdy all!!

I know the Netjets posse have been missing me but things NJE tend not to interest me these days. That was until a nice man at an FBO in Aspen fair gasted my flabber with a tale of a hair raising arrival there conducted by two pilots being assessed for their suitability to become line training captain/TRI on the G5 by none other than the ex-chief pilot.

Now this rumour has it that they never actually stabilised the approach and in fact were told by ATC to go around, an instruction they ignored resulting in them stopping very close to the end of the tarmac. Before any of the usual pro-NJE team start accusing me of exaggeration I believe the reaction of the Aspen authorities to this was to ban NJE aircraft from the airport. Surely not a step to be taken without cause?

Of course, this trio all being members of the same flying club ;) they passed their check. No word on whether or not the Aspen authorities have lifted their ban yet. Can anyone enlighten us?

Just remind me how many of those holes in the Swiss cheese have to line up before 'it' happens?

For those of you who didn't get Smeagel's Swiss Cheese point, try this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Cheese_model

Kind regards

GA

Swiss cheese, good that the theory was discovered on the 90´s but i´ve heard this since 40 years ago: an accident is the cumulus of different failures and are not always related to one individually.

I always like to read about airline accident so I can be more professional on my job and try to avoid them. Just remembered when I flew my first turboprop, the MU2-B, people told me that I was crazy, the japanese revenge!!!! I looked for all the info I could on the aircraft and found the problems for the accidents. 2 Years later I had one of those big problems, "Ice Acummulation", thanks I did my homework I could save my life and my co-pilot.

Cheesy stuff is fine if you're happy to wait for accidents before effecting safety improvement; if you'd rather just get on with making things better, clear out the cheese board, and be a disciple of Dekker's!

:):):):):):)

(Jim Reason is a smashing bloke, but Sid's approach is miles in front).