waveflyer
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If, as a Captain, you manage to fly an aircraft to a critical low fuel state situation and you opted to continue to your destination instead of diverting to an alternate, then some serious questions needs to be raised about your Captain leadership ability! Under IFR, you must have enough fuel to fly to your destination (and alternate if applicable), PLUS 45 minutes. If you have not seriously considered diverting once you reach 45 mins fuel remaining situation, then it clearly speaks volumes of your decisions making skills or lack there of.
Secondly, in this SWA accident, the Captain never reported Min Fuel or Critical Fuel (which the latter would trigger an automatic emergency ATC handling).
Thirdly, if this was a low fuel situation as you described it (which facts do not support your theory), why take the controls at such a low altitude? Evidently the FO managed to fly and stabilized the aircraft, with precision and pose, all the way down to the point the Captain took controls of the aircraft. Therefore there is absolutely no sound justification for the Captain to assume control of the aircraft!
Just curious if you guys do Cat II approaches and how you handle them.
Whine Lover said:YOU stated the Absolute...."We Go-Around when the Manual/GOM/ Procedures "Call for IT"."
Av8tordude said:All airline procedures, in their own language, dictate that for any reason a safe landing becomes questionable, a Go-Around MUST be executed
( The above proves here, once again, Pilots are functionally Illiterate...)
There are Reading Comprehension Courses online...available to anyone, no matter what their means.
Although, Common Sense, really can't be taught.
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I guess you must be speaking from personal experience?
Have a Good Life....And Good LUCK.
Most pilots eventually recognize that the weakest sticks are usually the ones that harp on the obvious and/or the minutiae.
Most pilots eventually recognize that the weakest sticks are usually the ones that harp on the obvious and/or the minutiae.
Most pilots eventually recognize that the weakest sticks are usually the ones that harp on the obvious and/or the minutiae.