Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
Lead Balloon, my judgement of you is based on what you write. That is all I know of you. I don't even know if you are talking about a C152 or a B52.
You judge me based on your personal opinion, sometimes labouring under misconceptions. Your first judgment was:
Personally I think your example is a safety issue, not because you would be likely to run out of fuel, but because you have a disregard for the rules if following them causes inconvenience.
You then conceded that I hadn’t broken any rules in the scenario I gave.
Your next judgment was:
The fact you didn't realise this in your own planning is a bit of a worry.
But what you called a “fact” was not a fact.
You then judged on the basis of your opinion of the safety ‘high ground’, using the deliciously ambiguous word “minimum”:
I guess the difference is that my judgement is about when to take MORE than the minimum fuel, not about when it's ok to eat into the minimum fuel. Your mileage obviously varies. Touch wood, I hope I don't have an experience similar to yours.
At least you got this right:
The purpose of the fixed reserve is to keep the fuel tank wet.
And I’ve achieved that on every flight in the last 33 years.