Originally Posted by
donpizmeov
The only person that seems fixated on only one particular landing place seems to be your good self.
The PIC in this incident had a fairly traumatic incident, recovered quickly, and then aviated, navigated and effectively communicated.
Given the time frame, this would seem to be a very good example of natural decision making. He took the information available and came up with a plan. He had sufficient spare capacity to think ahead, and plan his arrival nominating his preferred runway and approach preference (and at 2000 feet to give more options). His request for a runway inspection after landing was a consideration taught at my past airline after any non normal landing. And this wasn't because we thought bits would fall off, it was a "just in case thing" .
Taking that the aircraft recovery went to plan, it proves the plan was good enough.
It is funny that you feel under attack when people disagree with you, but deny you are are attacking this crew when you don't agree with them.
This crew proved they can work well when under pressure.
Yep, still straw manning.
If YOU were involved in a mid air mid Port Phillip Bay and Avalon was available, you would pass that up and go to home base? Even given all the other alternatives require flying over built up areas?