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Old 6th Aug 2007, 08:30
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Sounds like bolleaux to me. Given that a typical ZFW for a CWL flight is around 200T and MLW is around 285T you'd need to put about 145T of fuel on before you'd need to dump 50T to get down to MLW. Do you not think somebody would question why you needed 145T of fuel for a 100nm flight?
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