As accident reports are meant to provide lessons on how to avoid a similar incident occuring again, what have ppruners learnt from this accident?
For me it confirms a few things such as:
- Always have a plan B
- Just because its the legal minimum doesn't mean its the maximum acceptable.
- Don't trust your employer to be covering your back.
- If the conditions aren't suitable for an approach-hold
- If a ditching is required tell someone where you are
- Know your aircraft and have rough rules of thumb to work out what fuel is required.
- Murphy and his book of rules are a constant companion
- Max landing weight+fuel burn(up to MTOW)-max zero is an acceptable flight planning equation