"pacplyer" wrote in message
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"HiM" wrote in message
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"HiM" wrote ,snip

ONLY an idiot lifts a plane off the ground with a flight plan that
will
run
him short of fuel
"HiM" wrote ,snip

HiM, I don't dispute how you state the obvious here. Common sense
says this guy Selwaykid is not a commercial pilot with his kind of
attitude.

But you are actually wrong about this. Polar flights out of Anchorage
with some operators use an FAA exemption to take off with inadequate
fuel for the real intended destination. It's called re-release. It
is perfectly legal, and standard practice to dept for instance: out of
Anchorage, Alaska to London Heathrow (LHR) with fuel that will
knowingly not get you there with FAR121 required int'l reserves.
Though somewhat controversial, this procedure makes the airline money
because they can haul more freight instead of gas. How it works is
that we file a fake flight plan with the FAA that lists Preswick,
Scotland as our destination and then at the computed "re-release"
waypoint the seven tanks on the 747 are totaled up by the flight
engineer and then the F/O compares this number say 107,500 lbs of fuel
to the min 105,300 lbs on the flight plan for re-release. Looking at
weather, the Captain makes his decision. We then are legal to call up
ATC and refile a new flight plan to what was really our intended
destination all along: LHR. If we have say only 104,000, it's now
"assholes and elbows" for us to pull out the new flight plans,
reprogram the three INS's, get more weather for Preswick, break out
and brief the new arrival charts and plates, and mentally prepare for
a long duty day (extra leg to get there.) Last time I did this was
summer 1989. In cruise the sun stayed up all day and all night (just
kind of wobbled around toward the horizon.)

pacplyer


i say again any captian who panders to company profit in such a way is
far
less than professional



Well HiM,

I agree with you. I am somewhat uncomfortable with many of those FAA
exemptions, but since I don't run the FAA, or own the airline, all I
can do is talk about it here. The Captain that refuses a legal flight
at my company, is immediately removed from the trip and placed into
disciplinary status.
Two crewmembers were terminated two years ago for refusing the flight
due to a typhoon being in the area in TPE. The flight left anyway
without them. Our union ALPA is trying to get their jobs back. But
don't worry. If it's important, I get the CP and the Union on the
phone to discuss it. I don't pander to anybody except my wife. :-)

I rather envy, your armchair aviator one-liners, as they do not
require you to have any experience or knowledge in the matters you are
discussing.

Are you on the South or North Island?



pacplyer

nth

i gain my knowledge of safety form having been a locomotive engineer .. and
when i felt it was not safe it did NOT happen with me at the controls

buckled foot plate on a shunt engine? i refuse to use it .. company
bitched and moaned but i didnt endanger lives for profit

ground lights not working .. same thing

your friends did right .. let them sue for wrongful dismissal .....