I wonder how many desk-bound chaps are this minute bashing into the Trip Fuel ground PC,
Trip One
From : Chania
To : Hanover
FL : 250
Maintenance: Gear Down
Trip Two
Bog-standard A - B.
I would be very interested in seeing the two figures for the
MIN RAMP FUEL Required for these two trips.
The conversation BIGIRON had with the F/O of that fateful trip tells us a lot:
Despite the FO's best effort to convince the captain they were not going to make it he pushed on
I am very surprised the Commander, with such seniority, was sucked into that hole.
Dispatch and maintenance put a lot of pressure on the crew to make it to Munich or Vienna (both have Airbus maintenance)
Dispatch should stick to what the word says.
Maintenance should do what they do best too.
Commanders should tell them both what's going to happen, despite listening to their dreams!
TG