Originally Posted by
Tankengine
And I am sure it will be brought up everytime we hear that some idiot has turned up at Cairns (single, short runway) without Townsville, (pretty bloody close), as an alternate.🤔
You reckon that on arrival YBCS we plan for a bit of holding, maybe two approaches, two missed approaches, a climb to cruising level to YBTL where, on arrival, the weather is often not much better when YBCS is crap. A bit of holding (TEMPO) on arrival YBTL, an approach and landing with fixed reserve intact?
I think you would probably find that many operators big or small would not carry alternate fuel into Cairns when not forecast as such.