Would you rather be legal and dangerous or illegal and safe? Your choice.

I see your point. However, the question is whether setting a
conservative (fuel) minimum and then deciding for this flight to exceed
it, remaining within FAA rules, does not make one unsafe. Becoming a
test pilot by exceeding aircraft (weight) limitations is more likely to,
IMHO. But each case is different. One can make personal minima as
stringent as one wants (two hour fuel reserve, for example), but the FAA
and the aircraft manufacturers probably do not (the manufacturers want
to market the aircraft's capability, after all)

Not all that is illegal is safe, and not all that is legal is unsafe.

Jose
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