http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2007/07/09/fuel-dumping/ General Aviation and Aviation In General Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2007/07/09/fuel-dumping/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 Plastic Pilot | DA40 Maximum Landing Mass Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:05:28 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=49#comment-1612 [...] Someone recently attracted my attention to an interesting part of the DA40 aircraft flight manual: the maximal landing mass. Large airplanes (business jets and airliners) often have can’t land at the maximum take-off weight, because of landing gear structural constraints. If the landing has to be anticipated, the crew must dump or burn fuel, to get the weight within limits (read this post on fuel-dumping). [...] [...] Someone recently attracted my attention to an interesting part of the DA40 aircraft flight manual: the maximal landing mass. Large airplanes (business jets and airliners) often have can’t land at the maximum take-off weight, because of landing gear structural constraints. If the landing has to be anticipated, the crew must dump or burn fuel, to get the weight within limits (read this post on fuel-dumping). [...]

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