18-12-2005, 12:43 AM
Time to wade in from the ATC side of the house. STATE-SIDE there are two lvls of "fuel emergency." While chugging along you happen to notice your
fuel remaining is moving faster than planned, but you still have enough go juice to get there, one would say they have minimum fuel. Translation from
leagalese to English: I CAN get there but not if I'm number 53 for the runway. This isn't an emergency, but will generally get you pointed directly
towards the field without the chance for getting "vectors accross final for spacing," (Brad, sometimes on the scope side we'll snicker "for controller
amuzement
".) The other case IS an emergency and is called LOW FUEL meaning my gas is too low and I might not even make the approach lights let
alone the runway. A UNITED crew in a DC-8 comes to mind in Portland Oregon back in '79 or '80. This gets our blood pressure up and out come the
charts and the general scramble looking for divert fields. I know this really doesn't help in the FSPax world, but thought I would throw it in anyhow
fuel remaining is moving faster than planned, but you still have enough go juice to get there, one would say they have minimum fuel. Translation from
leagalese to English: I CAN get there but not if I'm number 53 for the runway. This isn't an emergency, but will generally get you pointed directly
towards the field without the chance for getting "vectors accross final for spacing," (Brad, sometimes on the scope side we'll snicker "for controller
amuzement
".) The other case IS an emergency and is called LOW FUEL meaning my gas is too low and I might not even make the approach lights letalone the runway. A UNITED crew in a DC-8 comes to mind in Portland Oregon back in '79 or '80. This gets our blood pressure up and out come the
charts and the general scramble looking for divert fields. I know this really doesn't help in the FSPax world, but thought I would throw it in anyhow
Controllers do it best, just ask a pilots wife!
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