Minimum fuel for diversion
Being a bit sad I have been sitting reading my Ops Manual and have a query about fuel.
The manual states that should the crew find in a fuel check that the expected fuel at destination is less than the required alternate fuel plus the final reserve the commander must decide to either continue to the destination taking into account expected delays so as to land with not less than final reserve fuel. Or to divert to the alternate so as to not land at the alternate with less than final reserve fuel.
One get around has been to nominate the alternate as the destination and then 'divert' to the new alternate ie the original destination.
My query is that I always thought that by the letter of the law once you reached alternate fuel you had to divert. Reading this though I can still land at destination? Is this correct?