Originally Posted by
SOPS
If the weather was really bad and there was a thunderstorm over the field .. what were they doing there in the first place?
With TS/RA you never know how bad the weather is until you arrive at the MDA. Also it’s very localized and changeable. 5 minutes either way and it might have been an uneventful approach and landing.
And then there’s the elephant in the room, no one ever talks about - the well disguised pressures on crew to not divert because of cost and inconvenience to the company. Careers are made and broken on managements perceptions of a pilot’s propensity to divert.
Always easy to criticise from the comfort of an armchair.