Fuel & Forcing to carry less?
Well
Maybe it should be seen for what it really is
Cheap journalistic sensationalism?
I don't doubt that such events might have occurred but if it were properly researched it would probably have shown the pilot to be on the "over cautious" and the dispatcher being "less cautious".
It would have been in contradiction with Regulations and could cause an operator to loose its license if they did what was portrayed by the said reporter?
I can't imagine that an operator would be as stupid or a pilot as brave as this person made them out to be? I am afraid it sounds a bit far fetched?
He heard a bell but had no idea where the sound was coming from. Probably a pilot expressing the idea to another pilot that he thought the fuel to be at the limit - and the story was streched - to "forced to carry less than required?"
The reg's on fuel in US are far more stringent that the rest of the world so they will not get away with it?
Stirring
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