Is it possible for LIDO to produce a flight plan with a given payload even if the actual fuel required is more than the tank capacity?
There is an argument in our company at the moment as the flight plans reduce the payload to give max fuel, sometimes in the region of 4000kgs however some Captains suggest if they carried the extra 4000kgs as payload the resultant extra trip fuel would be approx 150kgs per tonne (600kgs). Hard to really explain but I would have thought then we could reclear and reduce that burn to enable the flight to operate without a fuel stop.