Alternate airports

"Jose" wrote in message
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Ideally, an alternate would not be a short distance from your destination
anyway. After all, if the weather's too poor for landing at your
destination, often it will be at a nearby airport as well.

Not necessarily, IMHO.

"Often" is not the same as "always". I already pointed out in my initial
reply that choosing an alternate is a complex exercise. It is pointless of
you to take me to task for a comment that was obviously not meant to cover
all the bases.

Pete

"Often" is not the same as "always". I already pointed out in my initial
reply that choosing an alternate is a complex exercise. It is pointless of
you to take me to task for a comment that was obviously not meant to cover
all the bases.

Well, I wasn't "taking you to task". And my reply was not so much to
=you= as to the idea, often repeated as a mantra, that an alternate
should be outside the weather system to be really useful.

Jose
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