Originally Posted by Dream Buster
BOAC - you have obviously never run out of fuel and crashed?
- never. But I have run extremely short on 3 occasions and force-landed once, so I don't think I need your 'experience' there, thanks. One of the three would have been fatal within 5 minutes if I had not made the tanker over the North Sea in February, but that is not relevant in this (RyanAir) thread.
On 'Fuel league tables' - I often wonder if those at 'the bottom' are those who
always put on 'extra' even when it is obviously
not needed at the planning stage? In BA shorthaul at LGW the top of the 'fuel tables' (yes, even BA..) was stuffed with management pilots who only 'chose' to fly on nice days in the afternoon leaving all the early morning CAT II/III sectors to we hairies
. In which case, our 'pilota nervosa' could TRY loading PLOG on a decent day unless it would cause a nervous breakdown - in which case I suggest they are in the wrong job. There seems to be a muddled mindset in a certain group of pilots that if you load PLOG and get a delay you will crash/die.