Originally Posted by Dogma
I have had a number of PM's about the issue of arrival fuel into the UK particularly into London airports. Clearly the use of the Low Fuel checklist and committing with the very real potential of burning Final Reserve is not acceptable
- Great! Are you planning to do anything with these PMs? Are you presenting the case to the CAA, who will probably point at the AIC and (rightly) say 'at least 20mins extra is about 2400kg - what's the problem?'? This is a very old PPrune topic and one which has been pretty-well thrashed to death before. The answer is already in place and there should be
NO 'planning' into LON with the fuels you offer. If you can get a change in CAA regulation of airlines we will all benefit from being able to carry that 'little bit extra' into busy airports, whereas at the moment the other thread suggests that 1800kg (and below) is an 'acceptable CMR' in the CAA's eyes (see post#22 and other thread). If you are intending to try to stop a/c 'committing' there will be big issues at big airways! Do you have issues with 'statistical contingency fuel' as used in BA?