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Old 25th Jun 2011, 22:01
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Yes, as we have said before, providing you plan to land with at least final reserve (30 mins in EU), you have an expected approach time that will allow you to land with at least final reserve, and the forecast weather is such that you will be able to land even if a single piece of landing equipment (for instance G/S aerial) fails. That is the legal minimum you can plan to land with however if something else goes wrong and you find that you will land with less than final reserve (for instance, there's a further technical problem causing you to go around) then you call a Mayday and get the aeroplane on the ground in as safely a manner as you can manage, write up an ASR/MOR and go home thinking about how unlucky you were to end up in that situation but how glad you were that you still had that 30 mins of fuel up your sleeve.
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