jeta1
Pleased to hear that your rather unpleasant experience ended safely.
Had you taken holding fuel for the just in case event or diverted you could have been faced with the same problem and still had the same low fuel state. Indeed you may have held and then been on a CAT 3 approach and suffered an autopilot failure or two. The range of possibilities is endless and at some point a sensible judgement has to be made
What some seem to be saying here is 'lets take extra fuel every time just in case'. Whether we like it or not commercial considerations are important and one has to decide where to draw the line. I have said previously I take loads of extra when I feel I need it.
Nightflyer
Why was the A2B flight so short of fuel when it was foggy? Surely it was forecast and he should have taken extra.
Out of interest my company policy is that a flyby rarely achieves anything with unsafe gear indications.