If your FO wants to take an extra tonne for not apparent reason, you would take it ?
That would never happen in my outfit. If the F/O wanted an extra tonne there would be a discussion, you know, like two professionals would have, it would go something like this;
“ why the extra tonne?”
” We’ll, with the single runway Ops here we might burn an extra 200 on taxi and then that jet will effect us if we don’t get our level, the other thing I’m thinking of is the delays into XXX at this time of day, we will probably get 20 mins hold and that would leave us with the low fuel lights on, I think an extra tonne is sensible”
” yeah ok, are there any fronts we need to clear?
” Nup”
” Landing weight good?”
Yup”
”ok, an extra tonne sounds good, how’s the wife and kids?”.
So all of these posts assume a 200 hour cadet RHS flying with a legacy captain.
Bingo.
Most of my F/O’s had turbo prop commands for years and have between 3 and 15,000 hours.
I might feel differently if I operated with a different demographic.The reality is at my joint that we pretty much agree within a few hundred kg’s 99% of the time. The $58 to carry the extra tonne doesn’t bother me too much and happens rarely.