Originally Posted by
leon737
Absolutely. I refer to the specific conditions like short runway or runway is wet or contaminated. A general rule to just add less than 500kgs of gas to the estimation should probably work in most circumstances, doesn't it? I'm talking about 737 and 320 family and exact figures in calculations don't matter in this discussion.
I’ve always used the estimated fuel remaining as the actual fuel remaining at touchdown will be less. This gives a conservative estimate to the actual gross weight on landing.
Again, this is mostly academic unless you are really performance limited.