Originally Posted by
C172MQI
Just wondering if anyone has ever gotten flak from operations, management, whomever, for deciding to divert, hold awhile for t-storms to pass (even though getting is may have been possible, but dicey), the list goes on...
If a Captain is "too conservative" will the C.P. give them a call?
Just wondering how all of this works generally. You always here about pressure in 135 cargo ops but wondering if it happens in 121.
Thanks.
MQI
It rarely happens in 121, and if it did they wouldn't push you very hard because they really wouldn't their POI to get the idea that they were pressuring a lot of pilots.
About the only way you could get in trouble would be if you were ignorant of your OPSPECS and based your decision on that. As long as you know the applicable rule or minimums, you have some discretion to avoid situation which are technically, but barely, legal, or a combination of several barely legal circumstances...
Example: Wx at ILS mins by itself would not be an excuse to divert, but if you had a 20 Kt X-wind, snow, and marginal (or missing) braking reports...that combination would get you off the hook.
However, unlike GA, you can't establish "personnel minimums" which are higher than company mins.