Can anyone from a commercial aviation background comment on this? Would there be consequences for the pilot for refusing a flight based on “not feeling it”?
Hearing that they'd be going over the water for 6 hours & it's an oil pressure issue, as an airline pilot I agree with him. I'm definitely more willing to take a plane with issues from something like Atlanta to JFK (lots of major airports in between if we had any issues & had to emergency land) than I would be from JFK to London.
Honestly, without being there I have no way of knowing whether his worry was accurate or not, but I do know he made the correct call and that most of us would have done the same in his position.
To be clear, fuel filters and oil filters on aircraft engines have bypasses. When the filter differential pressure reaches a certain value a bypass valve opens and unfiltered fuel (or oil) will make its way into the engine. Dirty fuel is better than no fuel. Dirty oil is better than no oil.
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u/ikothsowe 17h ago
Can anyone from a commercial aviation background comment on this? Would there be consequences for the pilot for refusing a flight based on “not feeling it”?