I don't quite see how anyone can justify tasking to the limit of the envelope as standard operating procedure?
Now I think there's a thread that might like that sort of comment.
Saying that, having been dispatched to a task the other morning well out of our 'old patch', we ended up having to go into an international airport in order to fuel up to get back to base, everywhere else being closed. We landed with 28kgs in the main, supply tanks full & this was still 13 kgs above the 'final reserve fuel'.
Surely, this isn't so much
"tasking to the limit of the envelope" as
effective utilisation of the asset and correct fuel planning, isn't it?
Besides the report says, "
Final Reserve Fuel being the minimum amount of fuel with which pilots should plan to land."
If you happen to go below that FRF unplanned, isn't that what it's actually for?