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Old 14th Aug 2015, 01:05
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Lead Balloon
 
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That's right: If you land at your intended destination with 29 minutes' reserve, when you could have gone to a suitable alternate and landed with 30 minutes' reserve, you are a criminal (times 2).

Fortunately, no one's ever going to be able to prove it.

Ironically, the number of aircraft that suffer fuel exhaustion hasn't changed that much, despite what the rules used to say and now say. This will be just another change without a difference. Will the aviation community and the public be safer as a consequence of this 'reform'? The answer is a categoric 'no'!

That's the key point, AOTW: The silliness (and wastefulness) of a system which produces more and more rules and offences, with no change to the practical outcome.
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