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A Minimum Fuel Scenario..what would You do?

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You are at minimum fuel, the nearest alternate is over 100 NM(which you certainly do NOT have enough fuel aboard to make it to)
You just went missed at a non-towered field because could not see anything at DH(or 100 abv TDZE),
wHAT DO YOU DO? Looking for some input in relation to what the 121 world would recommend?

...During an interview I stated I would shut down 1 engine to conserve, fuel declare an emergency, notify operations, FA's, ATC, And request emergency personel be prepared on the field?
Looking for some feedback. Thanks

You dont want to make it worse by flying with one engine.

Min fuel after doing a missed means that you expected to be at an airport with good weather and the weather got bad... In that case before you began the approach you should have landed somewhere else and got more fuel . BUT since your at min fuel with no alternate within 100 NM then your in the middle of nowhere and the best thing to do is declare an emergency cause by that point you would be emergency fuel tell ATC fuel emergency and continue past the DH. The get your pen out cause ur going to write ALOT and do a carpet dance explaning why you got to emergency fuel in the first place

In your answer you didnt say where you would go?
 
I just can't believe you had the balls to tell people on flightinfo that was actually your response to an interview question. Good god man...have a little dignity
 
Remember you are only a first officer and anytime you're in a bad situation or you just don't feel good about what is about to happen, just let go of the yoke and say to the captain: "your A/C!"
 
Define "minimum fuel"...because this is where you are confused or where they tried to trick you.
If what they meant was you didnt have enough fuel to go anywhere else, (meaning you broke regs already), then your choice is to not land, exhaust your fuel and crash OR break a few more regs, land and survive to see the rath of the FAA and anyone else who wants a peice of you. Either way, you should not be allowed in the front of an aircraft again.
Oh, and to answer your question, I would have stood up during the interview and b1tch-slapped the interviewer.
 
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You are at minimum fuel, the nearest alternate is over 100 NM(which you certainly do NOT have enough fuel aboard to make it to)
You just went missed at a non-towered field because could not see anything at DH(or 100 abv TDZE),
wHAT DO YOU DO?

Duh, air-to-air refueling. :D
 
When this question comes up on your next interview tell them that you would climb as high as possible until both engines flameout and that way you would have a greater glide distance to another field.

If you can get coffee to come out of the nose of the inteviewer that means you scored extra points.
 
Proper response is " How the hell did the F*cking Capt get us into this problem because at this point he/she is not listening to me or I am so ineffective as an F.O. I deserve to allow this to happen."
 
This has to be flame bait. Shut down an engine after going missed in hard IMC WTF ????
I'm sorry to say that we actually had an ATR Capt. shut down a perfectly good engine to descend through a cloud layer and then restart it once below the clouds because they had an prop anti-ice fault..
 

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