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Press Release

SkyWest Airlines Receives Top Reliability Honors
Named Most Reliable CRJ200 Operator in the Americas
For Immediate Release
ST. GEORGE, UTAH April 22, 2009 – SkyWest Airlines, a subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW), is the proud recipient of Bombardier’s 2008 Annual Airline Reliability Performance Award. Topping the CRJ100/200 product category for the Americas region, SkyWest took the prestigious title for the second year running. SkyWest earned the title in the same product and region category in 2007. The airline also received top honors for overall dispatch reliability. “This award recognizes the caliber of SkyWest’s professionals throughout our operation,” said President and COO Russell “Chip” Childs. “I am extremely proud of our unparalleled team of more than 10,000 who work together to safely complete more than 1,500 flights every day.”
Todd Young, vice president of customer services and support for Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, added “Congratulations to your management team and to all the employees that contribute tirelessly to SkyWest’s operational excellence.” Bombardier’s reliability award recognizes operators of Q-Series turboprops and CRJ regional jets that logged dispatch reliability rates of 99% or better throughout the year.
SkyWest Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW) is the world’s largest independently-owned regional airline. SkyWest was awarded the FAA’s AMT Gold Award for maintenance training in 2004 and 2005, and the AMT Diamond award in 2006. System-wide, SkyWest employs more than 10,000 aviation professionals and serves a total of 150 cities in 39 states, five Canadian provinces and Mexico with more than 1,500 daily departures.

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This CFI workshop is the 3rd of 8 quarterly workshops sponsored by the FAA Safety Team to reduce general aviation accidents. Light Sport Aircraft Privledges, Limitations, Training & Examination plus use of the automated pilot application system IACRA will be discussed. Non CFIs are also invited to attend.

Dixie State College Hangar
801 Don Lee
Saint George, UT 84770

Sponsored by SLC FAA Safety Team

FAASTeam CFI workshops are planned in a 2 year cycle starting in October, 2008. The are 8 workshops with the subjects changing quarterly. After completion of the workshop cycle (1-8) the workshop cycle will repeat beginning with workshop 1.
You may begin any quarter at any workshop. Attendance at workshops 1 thru 8 in any order and completion of all 8 coretopics modules will be considered a completed workshop cycle.
Completion of all 8 workshops over the 2 year cycle qualifies for renewal of a non expired CFI certificate.

DON’T FORGET TO  REGISTER ONLINE

This required training is provided for potential FAASafety.gov Training Providers. It describes the requirements, limitations, and obligations that Training Providers must agree to. This training must be completed before an applicant can be approved as a Training Provider.

Teleconference and Computer-based Training
1020 North Flyer Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Conference Call Dial-in Number: (712) 432-1690
Access Code: 240050#

Register online here.

NOTE: You do not need to become a training provider if you are an Authorized Instructor (CFI, Ground Instructor etc.) and merely want to do normal flight training with a student and provide them with WINGS activity credit. All you need to do to give credit is to download the flight activity you want to do with your student and do all that the guidelines require with the airmen showing proficiency in all required tasks as indicated in the appropriate Practical Test Standard.

Generally, a Training Provider would be an individual representing mid- to large size companies that want to provide knowledge and/or flight training to a large number of students or provide training materials, such as DVDs and/or on-line courses, to airmen.

From the Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_12227046

Three killed in Tooele County plane crash

The Oquirrhs: Fog and clouds hindered search efforts

By Nate Carlisle

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 04/25/2009 07:10:49 PM MDT

Stockton » There was a boom and a rumble that shook houses. When the clouds lifted hours later, everyone saw the damage.

A firefighting airplane from Montana crashed Saturday in the Oquirrh Mountains above Stockton. The crash killed Tom Risk, 66, of Littleton, Colo.; Mike Flynn, 59 of Alamogordo, N.M.; and 32-year-old Brian Buss of Alberton, Mont.

The three were crew members for Neptune Aviation, of Missoula, Mont., and were bound for southern New Mexico to help fight a 19,000-acre wildfire, said Dan Ware, a spokesman for the New Mexico Forestry Division.

The plane, a twin propeller P2V Neptune, was flying from Missoula to Alamogordo when it failed to clear a mountain

Three people were confirmed to have died in the crash of a small airplane Saturday in Tooele County. (Chris Detrick/The Salt Lake Tribune)

pass, said Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park.

The Neptune was developed during the Korean war and is commonly used to fight wildfires, Park said. It had been equipped for dropping fire retardant, he said.

Visibility was only 100 feet when the plane failed to clear Stockton Pass, he said. It missed the pass by an eighth of a mile and slammed into a mountain instead, but should have been flying much higher, he said.

The plane was being tracked by the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, which lost track of it before the pilot could report any trouble or issue a distress signal, the sheriff said.

“The fire aviation community lost good people and a valuable resource today and they will be missed,” said

Jennifer Myslivy, a New Mexico-based fire mitigation and education specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

No one reported seeing the crash, though it was heard.

“We heard a boom and the house shook,” said Sandy Sanders.

“It sounded like an explosion,” said Millie Corey, Sanders’ mother. They live together on Stockton’s main drag.

Park said one person described the sound as “two semis crashing head-on.”

Tooele County search and rescue began trying to find the plane Saturday morning, but were initially hampered by the weather.

“Clouds were completely encompassing the area,” Park said. “You couldn’t see anything.”

About 1 p.m., fog and clouds lifted. A searcher on one of the Oquirrh Mountain peaks above Stockton almost walked upon the crash, Park said.

As the clouds continued to lift, the wreckage became more visible to onlookers along State Road 36. It stretched down almost all of one side of the peak. The fuselage could be seen at the top of the peak. Wheels and pieces of wings were scattered down the side.

By afternoon, residents with binoculars and telescopes stood along the road looking at the crash and watching the recovery effort.

Investigators for the Federal Aviation Administration were at the crash site Saturday, and officials for the National Traffic Safety Board planned to arrive Sunday, Park said.

ncarlisle@sltrib.com

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009
Contact: Marc Mortensen, Assistant to the City Manager, (435) 703‐0953
ST. GEORGE REPLACEMENT AIRPORT STILL ON TARGET FOR NOVEMBER 2010 OPENING

St. George, UT. ‐ After weeks of delays due to exceptionally heavy rainfall in December, construction on the St. George Replacement Airport is back on schedule. On any given day, from afar, a large plume of dust billows up into the azure southern Utah sky as blasting crews turn rocky hills into rubble while hundreds of large earth‐haulers work in unison like ants moving debris from one area to another. To date, excavation contractor, R.E. Monks Construction, has moved more than two‐million cubic yards of earth, half of the specified work as outlined in the first phase of construction. Instead of a hodgepodge of raw earth disturbances, the area is beginning to look like a long rectangular tabletop with runways and taxiways taking form. As grading and drainage work continues, contracts for the construction of infrastructure, off‐site roads and terminal building are expected to be secured sometime this spring.
The term “replacement airport” seems to have created concern for some area residents. Admittedly, the term is somewhat confusing if not used in its proper context. In this case, “replacement” is a technical term that is necessary to define the airport in order to receive federal funding and should not be considered synonymous with the word “replica.” In other words, while it is true that the replacement airport will replace the existing airport, that does not mean that one is similar to the other. The existing airport sits on 270 acres and has a 6,500 foot runway that cannot be expanded due to its mesa top location. However, the replacement airport will occupy 1,200 acres and have a 9,500 foot runway that can be expanded to 11,500 feet as local air service needs grow. The replacement airport will provide the property and types of facilities necessary for the future growth and development of southern Utah and neighboring communities.