Originally Posted by
ETOPS
In response to Retired Guy
You are quite right in your comments - and I have actually made an overweight landing in a B767-300. Large fleet with a few early examples not fitted with fuel dump. Followed the procedure in the QRH as the alternative was a long time at low level trying to burn off the excess fuel. It was a non-event and aircraft was cleared after inspection.
Reckon they rushed this and managed to forget the dump switch.......
Quite so. Can't think of any other reason. On the shortfall fleets with no dump we see time and time again planes holding with quite serious problems for over an hour or two "to reduce weight". I get a daily bulletin from AV Herald and it happens every day. Why do they do this? Get the thing on the ground and sort out the failure there if you can. A 2 hours hold = 4 knots on a 737!. As always runway performance needs consideration too. I have dumped over Nice and Antibes = 60 tonnes. But we didn't go it over the beach. Imagine. Mon Dieu!
R Guy