Originally Posted by
blind pew
Crew ignored the planned descent into warmer warmer in the later stages of the flight.
I may well be wrong, I'm working from memory, happy to be corrected etc etc but I thought BA introduced the low temp step down into the flight planning procedure for T7s
after the BA38 accident. Whenever it was introduced, and again as I recall it, a descent i.a.w. with the flight plan wasn't mandatory. You descended
if the observed fuel temp demanded it, OTOH if the temp didn't demand it you were free to ignore the descent.
The step down built into the fuel plan was to simply make sure you had loaded enough fuel in the tanks to make destination if the step down to a significantly lower level was
was needed..
tdracer - thanks for your insight, much appreciated.