Originally Posted by
Xray678
No offense taken. My biggest beef with the FAA is I think way too often guys dump gas rather than land overweight for no other reason than they are afraid of the FAA. If you have a long dry runway and there is no problem controlling the airplane, there is no reason a crew should not land overweight.
I think Delta does a great job supporting their Captains.
There are degrees of overweight. I don't think I'd try one 200,000# overweight unless I was on fire in a bad way.