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Old 5th November 2014 | 21:34
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barit1
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The DC-10 center tank is well fwd of the CG, which makes for inefficient cruise. So std. practice was to burn off center fuel first, to move the CG back to an optimum cruise condition. I suspect the A330/340-200 is operated similarly.
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