Hugmonster & Sky 9, you seem to have missed the point.On a planned out and back duty you are not dispatching OUTBOUND into discretion.My point is that we all know and it seems (to me) that the expectation is that we will apply the discretion to dispatch down route.There's the rub!.We all know that unscheduled night stops are a nightmare and would rather just get home to the wife/baby/golf/bed etc.Unbelievable though it may seem to non charter/frieght dogs but we often report for a night Canaries later than 2200L.That gives you 10.25 hours for 2 sectors.Throw in some not unusual head winds and a few small delays and you are certainly into discretion ex GLA for example.I'm not defending this practice but it is what happens.Unless they have a full standby crew at base we will dispatch LEGALLY somewhere.The odds are then very high that the crew will want to get home and go the extra mile.
[ 28 August 2001: Message edited by: HOMER SIMPSONS LOVECHILD ]