whose ya daddy!,. .What is it that can’t be simulated with running from a building?
What you don’t get is that when flying an aircraft to it’s maximum capacity regarding payload and range you don’t have the possibility to “take a few extra tonnes of fuel with you". You’re smack on the fuel numbers on your flight plan with only the route reserve to help you, and with a few extra knots of unanticipated headwind you’ve burnt of the RR as well. . .There is no way you can hold at low altitude for 10 minutes without breaking the safety rules. You’ll have to go to your alternate destination at once. What does that mean? You will most likely get stranded there! The company will have to provide transport/hotel/food for the passengers. Another crew will have to be taken out of standby and transported there as you’ve most likely exceeded your duty-points. There will be a delay in the production of the airline, which with a tight schedule can take more than a week to repair.. .Which in return leads to more costs, angry passengers and so on.
Think about it!
[ 23 January 2002: Message edited by: Knold ]</p>