Originally Posted by
Aoyb
The planning and requirements for alternates are a dispatch requirement.
once you are airborne you can divert to any suitable airport, regardless of what your dispatch alternates were.
They're different phases of the flight process.
As for the second question, would you be comfortable standing in front of a judge and explaining your actions? Makes the decision fairly easy
hi there.
Please I need some help here.
So yesterday we were flying this ultra long flight ( +12h) and 4 hrs from destination we realize we are quite tight on fuel and destination TAF is horrendous in terms of visibility. As we prepare a plan B we notice the favourite alternate ( less distance ) has less than ideal conditions, as well visibility forecasted to be marginal. So different strategies are discussed and one of them is,...what if we proceed to this alternate , again, not very promising TEMPO wx conditions although METAR is still acceptable. My question here is, if we decide to fly to this planned alternate ( from dispatch) directly, at some point, without trying the original destination, is this considered inflight replannig therefore, all considerations for new alternates and planning minima apply? I think the answer is yes, but... it was the spark of a very vivid discuasion we had in the cockpit me and 2 other colleagues.
Thanks in advance