A day with two pilots....
posted by Madame Chiang at 9:23 pm
Thursday, September 22, 2005
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4 Comments:
The second incident is not as idiotic as it seems. In my flying days more than a couple of times, we declared low fuel to get priority routing, although we never declared an emergency. ( The two are different things, I might add and in this case words do have meanings). For example getting into Singapore can involve getting jerked around in Malaysian airspace, declare an emergency you get right in. As these guys found out though, the paperwork after words will be your undoing........
Skippy is right. One can always declare low fuel, though there is no guarantee of preferential treatment on the holding pattern.
Declaring emergency is quite another thing, as in telling the ATC that it would be difficult for you to circle for more than 15 minutes.
Chek Lap Kok (Hong Kong Intl.) is very strict about this. Either you have an emergency or you do not. And they have no sympathy for short haul flights - say coming from Manila to Hong Kong - on low fuel. Any monkey tricks on Hong Kong approach and you could literally kiss your license goodbye (forever).
Anyway, the first incident (difficult landing) shows remarkable patience, confidence, and control. I think the pilot (Scott Burkey?) had a great sense of humor when he apologized for landing six inches off the centerline.
Cheers!
Ron
as an outsider to the aviation industry I still think the second lot were a bunch of idiots! For a real emergency obviously a request of that sort is necessary....to watch a football match...you must be kidding?! However, having spent three years living in The Gambia I can almost understand it....unfortunately Air Rum is a Jordanian based airline...
There can be no doubts that the second lot was a bunch of idiots.
A medical emergency, instead of fuel emergency, where one of the passengers was (say) having (read faking) difficulty breathing and probably suffering from a severe cardiac arrest, would have been more convincing and forgivable.
Though I doubt they would have allowed everyone else to disembark (in that case). Anyway, I am not a sports fan and therefore it is difficult for me to understand why people get so excited about a game they can always watch (later) on TV.
Cheers!
Ron
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