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What does "Minimum Fuel" mean?
Robert M. Gary wrote:
Sam Spade wrote: Thus, it can only be used in the destination terminal area, after a lot of arrival dalay holds, delay vectors, etc. It is probably most often used by oceanic flights after encounting unexpected winds or having flown at an unexpected altitude. No need to have "a lot of arrival delays". Flights don't carry a lot of extra fuel since its very expensive to haul a bunch of extra fuel up to 30,000+ just to return it to earth and cargo pays better. -Robert My experience was that it is used by transcon flight more, simply because there are more of them. |
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