Originally Posted by
Ixixly
I'd say you'd both agree that with a suitable airport directly below you'd be silly to take the additional risk than take the extra 30mins to stop in for fuel and be sure and that with a suitable destination only being 10mins away at reserves it'd be silly to take the risk on a random field below no matter how lovely and short the grass looks from above.
One other poster said he'd do just that= overfly an airport and use FR fuel to reach a better COMMERCIAL destination- it's where you really have to make people realize the "how far you can go" is how much the regs allow, unless you have a VERY good reason otherwise.
And even in terms of landing in a field- it's better to do so with fuel on board than have to land at the end of the glide- so how close do you cut it?