Spirit Roadshow and TA vote

[bubbers44]

I guess I made a scared choice when I was holding for an ILS in San Salvador and as it passed the wx went to 200 and 1/2 with a 10 knot quartering tailwind with a wet runway and I declined to start the approach. Two turns in holding later it was VMC and a gentle headwind. Good judgement handling your employment and good judgement flying your airplane are about the same. Sometimes you have to get older to believe this way. 20 years earlier I probably would have gone for the quartering tailwind at minimums because I knew I could do it.

 

[CosmoKramer]

I guess I made a scared choice when I was holding for an ILS in San Salvador and as it passed the wx went to 200 and 1/2 with a 10 knot quartering tailwind with a wet runway and I declined to start the approach. Two turns in holding later it was VMC and a gentle headwind. Good judgement handling your employment and good judgement flying your airplane are about the same. Sometimes you have to get older to believe this way. 20 years earlier I probably would have gone for the quartering tailwind at minimums because I knew I could do it.

2 turns in holding??? Do you have any idea how much fuel that is??? No wonder we cant' get a raise....

 

[bubbers44]

Yes, that was wasteful and then it was in a 727. Maybe that is why they made us retire at 60. The young captains could get the job done.