Originally Posted by
ropetow
At what point would the crew get a (further) EICAS reminder that they were still dumping - is it possible to empty the wing tanks completely and not notice?
The fuel jettison system will automatically dump down to MLW when activated and the system dumps out of the center tank first. No it's not possible to empty the wing tanks during fuel jettison and lastly when dumping the EICAS has a visual display to alert you of the dump in progressive's and as i recall time remaining.
Unless you really like flying around over the water on a single engine, the recommended action is to land as soon as possible. I have flown that arrival routing at least 1000 times in evrything from the DC6 to the 777, and frankly I haver noticed any schools, to busy looking for traffic.