Well, now you have. 28 years of long-haul flights and not once have I ever seen anyone burn extra fuel just to make the FMC happy. I’m glad that I work at a place where we are still allowed to use our common sense.

So what do you do if, after fueling, the totalizer reads 500 lbs. less than the calculated fuel (common on both the 777 and 787), but both are equal to or more than your planned block fuel? If you taxi out and take off when the totalizer reads planned takeoff fuel your FMC gross weight will be too high, and you will apparently get violated. But, if you wait until the calculated fuel equals planned takeoff fuel, then at your first waypoint you’ll be 500 lbs. behind (assuming that you use the lower of the two values, as we do).

What’s an RDP, a redispatch point? I think that that is weird.