Originally Posted by
mitchellinmn
Ok my ignorance will be showing here, but a few guys have said fat on gas...why drag the gear around because of too much gas? To get down to max landing weight, couldn't you just ask for a lower altitude and let the engines do their thing and gulp down the fuel faster? Are there tire pressure monitors on the CRJ? I was thinking if they got a high reading maybe a tire got warm after a take off run? Stick it out in the breeze to see if it dropped back to normal? The biggest thing i have flown is a Duchess, so I have no idea.
No tire pressure monitors, only gear bay overtemp loops. If a loop indicates overheat the procedure si to lower the gear to 1) get the overheated and probably burning wheel truck away from the fuselage and 2) use the slipstream to blow out the fire and/or cool the truck.
I would descend first, and try flying faster. The computer can actually estimate how much fuel you will have left if you tell it your altitude and speed. But if that's not enough, you need to get some serious drag out, or plan on holding. You can't use flaps above 15,000 so maybe they were too high for that.