[falconvalley]

Get this. The DO, CP, and POI are all relatively new to their jobs. In fact, when I did my recurrent in Dec, my checkairman was getting certified and we had to use our old POI, who is now based in Chicago, because our new POI isn't certified for signoffs of checkairmen and new captains. I wonder what our old POI, a former Beech and DoJet captain with us, would think about this. He would probably have alot of insight on rewriting manuals and such as he saw alot of the justification for rewrites and new ops specs in their actual occurence. I'm not suggesting he would necessarily agree with BB decision to return, but he might have a few things to say about safety and how you go about supporting change. There is plenty of literature and media out there that supports the fact that flight in freezing precipitation is a crapshoot. I think the Germans were smart to put that warning in the AFM and that syx management is crazy out of their minds to pursue the captain for this. These are the same folks who have been telling DoJet pilots about a cruise temperature restriction that was misinterpreted (or something of the like) in the AFM.