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Old 11-03-2011 | 01:47 PM
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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.