So where do we go from here? Should pilots and controllers try to persuade the regulators of UK Aviation to introduce an official 'low fuel' call, without the need to declare a 'PAN'? Would such a procedure be open to abuse, and therefore fall in to disrepute, as seems to have sometimes happened in the past?
Might it give false comfort to the programmers of 'Cirrus' et al, and tempt an even meaner fuel policy?
Contentious questions perhaps, and I don't have a ready answer
