Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
True ....FMS will recalculate the fuel with the lower ALT.........Don't forget that use of flaps en-route is prohibited.......However, I am not aware of any restrictions on the Gear other than Speed........I had a friend that got to the destination and had to fly around in a hold fully configured with the trust levers pushed up to burn off excess fuel......was ridiculous....but it worked.
