vilas,
I am not quite sure why you say, 'No! You can't.'
Back in the 1970s, when James Mancham was President of the Seychelles, I was flying a VC10 to the island from Nairobi. There was a large load of fruit and veg in the hold, plus a goodly load of passengers. Mombasa was the fuel alternate and all this put us over the max landing weight at Seychelles, the only remedies were either to offload the fruit and veg or offload some passengers, neither of which seemed a good idea - so, I decided to burn the excess fuel off on the way so as to be below MLW.
President Mancham was on board in first class and when, en-route, I went back to talk to the passengers (we did in those days) I explained the problem and asked him if he would like to see his island. He was delighted at the idea, so I sat him in the jumpseat and we flew round the island at around 500ft and burnt off the excess fuel. Both he and the passengers on the left side were very happy.
So - all legal with problem solved and good diplomacy and publicity achieved at the same time!
Last edited by Bergerie1; 6th May 2018 at 17:18.