Originally posted by Peter Kesternich
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As I've said, as far as I know the regulations and the flight plan don't know or care about "suitable airports" other than those intended for landing in the flight plan (the destination and the alternate, and eventually an optional fuel stop and its alternate). I guess that to consider all airports within reach from the route as "suitable" one should check the status of all and every airport, NOTAMs, weather, etc to verify that they are actually "suitable", and define a "suitbale" alternate for each of them (as it's done for the optional fuel stop).
The regs don't know if you are fileing from Buenos Aires to Awkland with Sydney as alternate (where you don't have any "suitable" airports for most of the route) or London to SFO with San Jose as alternate where you would have potentially "suitable" airports every few NM for the last 1/2 of the trip.
And as I've said, my questions are not related to the safety due to the plane eventually running oput of fuel, but about how do those flight plans meet the regulations and about the logic behind a flight plan that would PRETTY LIKELY (not just once every 100 flights) end with a fuel stop.
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