What DJ did was 'reasonable". He complied with rules and regulations and still failed. This throws into doubt CASA's entire regulatory strategy - for which DJ is still being punished, unjustly.
That’s only an opinion Sunfish. I’m not saying you’re wrong but it is just one persons opinion that what DJ did was ‘reasonable’.
Obviously some people think his decision making was not up to scratch, you obviously think his decision making was ok. Such is life.
At the end of the day if all a PinC had to do was comply with the legal minimums we would be seeing fuel emergencies left right and center. But they don’t, they have to put on enough fuel to keep the aircraft safe and make a series of decisions along the flight that ensure that the reserve fuel is never used. That’s the goal. Unless you’re at war completion of the mission is secondary to ensuring that reserve fuel is not used. I sometimes wonder if some pilots realise that.