cassablanca
I heard of another situation recently where a crew had an inflight shutdown......after talking with ops control they were persuaded to overfly a perfectly acceptable airport and return to home base,
Interesting. I believe this one comes up sometimes on our command upgrades in LOFT detail ( on a twin) . Agreeing to overfly could end up with an interesting debrief.
My two pence worth - The way I play it if I'm faced with a rare "land the nearest suitable airfield" problem or similiar and end up with the time to contact ops control I
tell them either:
1. Where I am diverting to.
If it's lightly slightly less dire problem I'll tell them
2: A list of places I am prepared to go.
Only MHO.....
wingnut
But, do any of the major engine manufacturers actually let the system make that decision. And if so, what exactly are those circumstances.
Have a look back at some of tdracer's recent posts.