Originally Posted by
Wizofoz
Sure, but how often have you seen an aircraft that has declared minimum fuel been then given more delay?
More to the point, what pilot is going to sit in the hold until they are a glider... other than Avianca, and a few others... but the drivers that do so will get their name in the funny pages.
A while back, the TC examiners and instructors were lamenting on the fact that one of the LOFT exercises would have the crews holding until they ran out of sim time. Then they changed the remaining fuel, and the guys did indeed hold until they went silent. My suggestion was to sit back and give the crew the full monty experience following making the sim into a 6DOF glider. After the first crew sat there for 15 minutes until impact, the word got around that it was not a fun experience, and the crews started diverting as was prudent to avoid a repeat. They only had to let one crew enjoy the full ride to get the message out. That followed a particularly unpleasant event at NYC where the plane, one x big plane, darn near became a glider overhead JFK, and ended up diverting to Stewart, which was closed and ugly too.