Originally Posted by
Adamastor
Very interesting. In Australia a declaration of "minimum fuel" is considered an emergency and indicates that the pilot requires priority for landing. We also have an "emergency fuel" call for when they're not getting enough priority!
If a "minimum fuel" call is considered an emergency in Oz, what category of emergency does the aerodrome controller call? Is it a Local Standby (or Alert) or a Full Emergency? Getting all the emergency vehicles in the area rushing to the airport for what is basically a priority routing call would seem to be a bit of overkill.
