Dear friends,
We are all relatively new to type and we were all taught the we should enter in the reserves field hold + alt, which would represent the minimum fuel over destination (of course we would have headed to the alternate long before
).
But some guys, think that you cannot consume your route contingency before you reach you reclearence fix, so the idea is:
- before reaching the recleareance fix you reserves should read: 10% route contingency (which is 10% of the trip fuel from reclearence fix to destination) + alt + hold. If you have an insufficient fuel message anywhere before the reclearence fix, it would mean that you'll reach the reclearence fix below the minimum fuel required to proceed to destination, so star acting now to save fuel;
- after overflying the reclearence fix your reserves should be changed to alt + hold, for obvious reasons.
I think it is a feasible method, although a good fuel log would alert you very soon as well.
What do you think of that? How do you actually do in your companies?
Thanks a lot for the help and,
Happy landings.