Originally Posted by
1201alarm
Let me get this straight. You are pilot on an A380. In a real airline that usually means you have seen the world, you have experience, you are well trained,
and you possess some airmanship and decision making skills.
Now you approach a runway and the box says the runway is too short. You go around, better safe than sorry. Fair enough.
You then trouble shoot, you make your factored landing distance calculation (again), you find out that all is fine, it also matches your experience with regard to necessary landing distance, you make another approach, you are stable, you are on profile and on speed, all deceleration systems are working, and because the stupid box still says it is too short, you go around again and divert? WTF?
Where have we arived in our industry when such pilots fly a flagship? WTF?
Very simple...rules are rules and as a EK Skipper you better follow them. That's how it is