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Old 12th Oct 2023, 06:39
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wiggy
 
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As has been said these are not normal times and whilst not wishing to say too much I think it is safe to say the fuel plan/load for destinations isn’t just blindly run only on the basis of TAFs and NOTAMS.

Even before last weeks events whilst rare it wasn't completely unknown to despatch for TLV from London with lots of gas and very distant alternates on file if there was thought to be a possibility of potential, err, issues on arrival.

Personally I never saw round trip fuel loaded/suggested though that might not have been possible in our case due to payload (it was a popular route) and max landing weight considerations for TLV.

Loss of GPS was not uncommon in that part of the Med even before current events.

I guess I must be missing something on Flightware - for the eastern portion of the flight best I'm seeing is loss of data and 9000' as a minimum alt, I’m not seeing evidence of an actual go-around..might be my lack of IT skills.

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