Originally Posted by JT
In the ideal world, your company will have done the sums and your OM published procedures will address any reasonably likely eventuality .. ie follow the procedure should be the mantra.
- exactly, John - 'ideal world' - I don't want to make a big meal of this, but my point is that one should be 'thinking' of all eventualities. As a DanAir Fleet Manager once said "that is why we put 4 stripes on our Captains' shoulders"
. There are not many airports where the problem presents itself, so it is not an impossible task.
I do not think that it is reasonable for published procedures to cope with failure at many points, and often
"if past ET point, follow SID" (NB we have checked!!) would be fantastic, but not in the real world.
As ocampo says, often where there are potential 'traps' further along the SID, it is often possible to turn back towards the field to pick up the ET track - but not always.