Originally Posted by
Timbo
You are an RJ F/O, and you are going to tell the Captain of a Heavy, coming into JFK after an ocean crossing, what's prudent? How much EXPERIENCE do you have in his world?
Good luck with that.
And no, you don't know the whole story, obviously.
You don't know the whole story either just based off of a live atc recording. Low fuel on an airplane is low fuel whether you're in a 777 or a 172. The point he was trying to make is that you shouldn't let yourself get boxed into the emergency corner that easily. And since we don't know the whole story (or at least I don't) why did they accept vectors for 22r to begin with?
There's more than one way to get a message across. The pilot of aa2 didn't have much tact in doing so. It's one thing to be going in the Hudson and another to need a runway into the wind. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since a delta 777 pilot should know better than to **** into the wind on apc like you did above