A380-800,
Bloggsie- Fair enough, but the PIC decision in this case may be good enough for single engine aircraft with a bang seat, but for commercial operations, where literally everything is backed up for unforeseeable/unlikely events, eg engine failures, weather minima, pilot incapacitation, autopilots, electrical systems etc, it seams odd that we have disparate fuel policices in this day and age. Having fuel to land on a back up bit of turf makes sense to me and I am a fan of the policy.
Understand all that. Arriving at a tin-pot joint like Perth certainly warrants alternate fuel but surely not a major 24/7 international hub like Darwin, run by the Defence Farce of Australia?
Maybe the new head of CASA will put the eco-warriors back in their boxes by mandating at least "technical" alternates (now there's a term that has been in use in Oz for quite a while, by some at least, hey AQIS...) for all high-cap ops.
