[jtrain609]

I should add something to clarify my position also.

It's not that I don't care about the pax. not getting to their destination, but I don't care about that as much I care about not running out of gas. I might not have a ton of experience, but I've flown around a handful of thunderstorms and I've seen what can happen when they're blowing past an airport. What if we planned on arriving with 1,800 lbs. of gas and we get a windsheer alert on final? Ignore it and possibly run the plane into the ground because you're out of gas? This was not an isolated cell (I should have clarified that) and there was a reason we needed all that gas to be legal. What if we get unstabalized on final and we've gotta go around? Those 1,800 lbs. of gas are gone FAST and if you don't make it right back into the airport you are in some serious trouble.

There's no reason for that. The whole purpose of dispatch, decision fuel and all the other rules we operate within are to mitigate risk to the maximum extent possible within the realm of operating efficiently and on time. Personally? I don't like the idea of killing all our options on a hunch that the field will clear. Our rules are there to protect ourselves from our hunches, as greaper said.