FUEL EMERGENCY at Dubai airport
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Regarding uncovering the fwd fuel pumps - are you sure this isn't more to avoid damaging the pumps?
$e tries to eat it 
Don't always be sure about Sharjah taking you, at least not immediately. I came back to DXB a year or 2 ago and had unforecast fog. KLM 74F behind me was told to reduce speed and take vectors. When he indicated he didn't have enough fuel and wanted to divert to SRJ, the answer was.....
"I'll see if they will accept you".
Personally, I will add some extra to the contingency to ensure I have the 20 mins holding.
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Many years ago, flying into Nice via Rome (with EK) during a mistral, and having to divert to Marseille due crosswind Nice going above max and then getting constant low fuel warnings while on finals in a max crosswind case.... I learned my lesson.
Everything was done by the book, we had even put extra fuel due weather and complied to the FOM, and landed with approx 45 mins in tanks... however the knotted gut feeling that exists when you know there is not much fuel sloshing around in the tanks after a very long duty day landing in an unfamiliar port is not very comfortable.
I would strongly recommend that those who write and enforce these rules should get out on the line, fly around using their own policies, fuel and others, and get first hand experience on the repercussions of their desk bound decisions, maybe then operational policies would be established outside of the bean counters office. That's my 2 dirhams worth, off to get my beauty sleep on my min rest DXB layover.
Everything was done by the book, we had even put extra fuel due weather and complied to the FOM, and landed with approx 45 mins in tanks... however the knotted gut feeling that exists when you know there is not much fuel sloshing around in the tanks after a very long duty day landing in an unfamiliar port is not very comfortable.
I would strongly recommend that those who write and enforce these rules should get out on the line, fly around using their own policies, fuel and others, and get first hand experience on the repercussions of their desk bound decisions, maybe then operational policies would be established outside of the bean counters office. That's my 2 dirhams worth, off to get my beauty sleep on my min rest DXB layover.
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As one of the poor, overworked controllers on the Muscat side of the border who has to give "Sorry, expected approach time not determined due.....(fill in an excuse), I wonder if we could make use of all those US KC135s that are passing through? All you gotta do is stick one of those fuel protuberances on the front of all those EK planes, assign a KC135 to the BUBIN and DESDI holds and you can stay up all night!!
Any takers?
Any takers?
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Uplift what you need...Not what your told you need by someone behind a desk. The desk will never run out of Fuel. YOU WILL.
If you think you need it, uplift it. If you don't need it, leave it behind. Be a Captain, make a decision. A professional one.
If you think you need it, uplift it. If you don't need it, leave it behind. Be a Captain, make a decision. A professional one.
