The only qualification to make comment on PPRuNe is a user name and password. I’m scared of heights and aircraft, so haven’t any actual operational experience.
That’s why I’d like you experts to identify, with precision, the flaws in Mssrs Davies and Aherne’s maths and reasoning, and to identity, with precision, what you would have done, when, to avoid ending up in the water.
So far I take CB’s point that more fuel on arrival at YSNF would have given the PIC a greater chance of finding a break in the weather. But it wasn’t going to get the aircraft to an alternate.
It’s the decision to press on to YSNF that’s the problem. What would you have done, when, to avoid ending up in the water? What, and when, precisely?
Last edited by Lead Balloon; 11th Dec 2017 at 05:29.