Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
Our SOP has a blurb on overweight landings. It basically boils down to "don't do it unless safety of flight is compromised." Pressurisation failure per se wouldn't be a reason to land overweight for us but a hole in the side of the fuselage probably would be.
Overweight landings are not done routinely when you find you burnt less fuel and are overweight. You are supposed to hold and burn it off. But when you taxi on one engine, do Flap3 approaches to save fuel then hold for three hours to avoid OW landing how does that work out against overweight inspection or some other maintenance expense?