Antigua
I reckon an example of
perverse would be trying to deny the clear message in your early posts, or were they dramatised for effect?
OK fair enough, lets not use sparse, lets say bare-minimum instead. So what seems to be happening a fair bit is that you end up taking off with bare minimum legal fuel and while you're having your nap ATC won't let you climb anywhere near optimum,you keep getting levels below those planned,and those pesky winds seem stronger than expected,then blow me, Maastricht want you at FL 250 two hundred miles out.
GEEZ that never happens!
Now fine,s*it happens,but if it keeps happening there ought to be a message there. So you end up holding at LHR without a lot of fuel/options. And it's you who said it is 'increasingly normal' and 'almost certainly happened today', did you not, or am I being perverse again?
A hundred pilots will come up with at least a hundred ideas about fuel, but to me at least, leaving yourself on approach without..... 'necessarily enough fuel to do a go- around AT ALL, even a truncated one' is hopefully a not even once in a lifetime occurrence.
Why not bid for the 777, maybe it can do the job? And by the way could you send me a postcard from somewhere windswept and interesting,you long haul sky god?
