Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
Is anyone else wondering why the latest fuel policy message is referring to Emergency fuel as a “decision point”?
Seems like most of the decisions would need to be made well before that as soon as it becomes evident that touchdown will occur at or below that fuel state.
No kidding. I'm not a captain here, but just like all of us, I have been at a previous job.
If enroute we were predicted to land with less than 45 minutes of fuel we were required to talk to dispatch and most likely diverting (we even had these numbers on the release at each waypoint). Unless continuing was the safer option. Yes I have had to declare "min fuel", it was company policy to do so if landing fuel was going predicted to to be less than 45 minutes, but both occurrences were after go-arounds and never was required to do paperwork or received a phone call.