Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
Since you bring it up, what's the deal with you guys and burning gas in the pad? I've had to DH on several PCL flights where we pushed back the sat doing a runup for 20 minutes. Why are you always pushing overweight? I've flown 200/700/900 and never had this problem. Is it something weird in your op specs? Can you not defuel?
Defueling is most likely an action that one tries one time only to realize the time and $$ saved by burning the gas in the pad>The time spent waiting for the fueler to return and complete the defuel.