Can you also now please advise where in EU-OPS it states that the declared emergency overrides the requirements you pointed out, instead of merely that the aircraft is not complying with their requirements?
There seems to be a resistance to recognising that things can go wrong in aviation and an assumption that one can 'override the requirements' to plan to land with reserve fuel'. When you work out you are unlikely to land with reserve fuel that section REQUIRES you to form an alternate plan.(which is common sense). If that alternate plan then goes tits up - let's take a silly scenario - you are on your way to an alternate airfield which you CAN reach with reserve fuel when a fuel leak develops in one tank/engine. What do you do? Decide you now cannot comply with the 'legal' requirements' so all is lost - and just crash?
Point 2 states "However if, as a result ...", does the requirement to declare an emergency also begin with a similar "However if as a result ...."?
- I am not understanding this question. The section requires the commander to take 'the appropriate action' which includes gaining priority through an emergency call. Why do you need additional stimulus?