Spooky 1 said:Okay I see where you are coming from with this scenario. So lets take a look at the following. This time we will use an alternate.
Fuel to destination: 35000
Fuel to alternate 4000
45" hold 5500
I seem to recall that Delta's policy is that 5000 is considered "Min Fuel" and 3500 is considered "Emergency Fuel" both based upon certain perfromance parameters in the event of missed approaches. So looking at the above fuel load would you expect to still have a minimum fuel onboard of 5000 after you had exhausted the 4000 for the diversion and the 5500 for the 45 minute hold, or would you have build that 5000 "min Fuel" into some other part of the flight plan? In other words if you held for the 45" and then diverted, where is the remaining fuel at?
Spooky...just remember to plan after your worst case scenario to never let yourself go below a bingo fuel amount and arrive at either diversion or planned field (considering diversions holds etc.) with at least 7 - 8K in fuel for the 757