Originally Posted by
Uplinker
League tables for fuel is frankly xxxxxx dangerous. I have heard of really stupid and dangerous behaviour, such as one moron who flew back to a partially SNOWTAM ed UK with just 300kg extra fuel..............
So, never for fuel, I agree.
On the other hand of spectrum, you have people taking more than half an hour of extra fuel to an almost deserted 2-runway airport in severe CAVOK, just because 15 years ago they had to fly one turn in a hold one day. There's extreme cases on both sides.
Originally Posted by
Uplinker
But if we had league tables or part of our pay was, say, £2.50 for every approach we flew that was fully stable at 1000', and a touchdown within the touchdown zone, it might start to change attitudes to risk taking and provide an incentive to encourage safe behaviour; it could work.
If you're not stable at your gate and have not touched down in the touchdown zone or at the point that you should have for a safe landing (those two might not co-incide), you should go-around. We shouldn't reward people for doing what's expected of them.
What's next, a fiver for lifting your bottom off the seat and doing a walkaround when it's raining?