Originally Posted by
tdracer
People have to make quick decisions based on the data that is available to them at the moment.
Sometimes - often with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight - those decisions are not perhaps the best. But you have to work with what you have available at the time - not the information you wish you had available.
Isn't that why we calmly work out Alternates on the filed flight plan before we start ?