Whoops. Missed that detail. Disregard. 😁

45 minutes of additional holding fuel planned. And because of altitude change it became way less than 45 minutes. Guess I didn’t explain the scenario very well.

My point is don’t just look at times but you have to evaluate real burn. Especially when deciding on needing to pull the trigger to divert.

Terrible answer but....I can give you the fuel but I can't adjust the WDR. There's no way to adjust the numbers in the box to reflect a fuel change

The flip side, it pretty much guarantees fuel isn't going to be an issue on the LOE

You can always have extra gas. I only lost that argument once when I was flying my first 757 flight in 5 years. FRA-JFK planned to land with 7000 at JFK with severe T storms forecast. Called dispatch and asked him to bump the fuel from 78,000 to 83,000. He replied, "Well Captain, 78,000 is all it holds!"
We ended up in BOS. Delta pulled the 757 off the route after 6 weeks and put the 767 back on.

Sim land, cooperate, graduate, candidate plays the game.

Not when flying in "Simlandia" on an LOE, as the poster referenced. It's a tight script that thou shall not deviate from. 😁

Yea, I corrected myself a couple messages ago wrt to the fact that it’s a sim event. But, if one wanted to push back a little, telling the examiner the sim event is supposed to be handled just like a line event might be sporty. They love to tell us that, and if that’s the case, that’s how I’d handle it on the line.

PDX-SEA? You aren't takeoff performance limited on that route. Again in a 737-800, you can land with 8000 pounds and not bump anything. If the plan calls for more than that on arrival, and it certainly will with specific alternate requirements for any number of destinations, then any fuel added beyond that has a chance of reducing the available payload (and bumping non-revs).

I remember flying the 757 to FRA. I felt so insignificant. Obviously before GH took over Network.

The weather forecasters on that route are terrible too. We takeoff and SEA is VFR with no ALT listed or required and in <30 minutes the destination goes CatIII unless the engine fails then the visibility comes up to 1/2.

Train how we fight, fight how we train.