Help me justify actions and save my career
I have just been chopped on my pre-FNT for WSO training prior to the OCU, and am trying to find out if I was really in the wrong... The failure was that I briefed the SALT using an MSA pie chart from a TAP. I looked at the heading that we had in a straight line to the destination, and used that section from the pie chart, rather than the highest. I was an Air Trafficer before, so am used to using "Sector Altitudes" to get an aircraft down safely. I knew about the higher figure in the MSA pie chart, but was trying to show that I could do that little bit extra thinking (which eventually has led to my downfall!!!). The aircraft was never in danger as we converted from visual to the TAP prior to descending anywhere near SALT. Please could anyone let me have any ideas, or comments on the severity of my case. Thanks in advance...