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Old 05-13-2013 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by LivingTheDream
Unless I'm very short on gas or on fire, I'm going around... And yes, as the Captain, I am 100% responsible (morally and legally) for the safety of my passengers... regardless of what they have or haven't been told.
Or if you've just held for an hour because the airport was below mins and only now did the TDZ RVR briefly creep up above mins just for a few token moments -- it'd be hard to go around in that situation, too.

I see where the ''just land'' sayers are coming from. I do. In the common sense world (an alternate reality, of course) our obligations are satisfied when the cabin crew has told the pax to fasten seat belt, put the tray tables up, seats upright, etc and we've got the seat belt sign on. Somebody still gets up, goes to the pooper, we land anyway, person returns to their seat while taxiing to the gate. No harm, no foul. Life is good.

What do you guys think the chief pilot, the FAA, the LAWYERS are going to say if said knucklehead is discovered DOA in the lav with a fractured skull after pulling into the gate? Sweet Moses, they would have a field day. They'll Monday-Morning-Quarterback your decision till they're blue in the face, but something tells me that you, the PIC, would be in quite a shistorm if they ''felt'' you had more than enough gas, traffic was light, weather was good.........

As for answering the intercom on a two mile final -- that's debatable, too. What if they're calling to say you've really got a problem, like there was an unusually loud bang heard in the cabin when the gear came down, or something that could compromise safety on landing? You don't know unless you answer.

There really is no right answer at the end of the day.

Go-around? Land? Really depends, I guess. Unless the guy doesn't speak English, I think at the very least s/he gets an Inflight Disturbance report.
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