Airplane Maximum Landing Weight Explained

Описание: In this video, we explain more about maximum landing weight and how it can influence safety in flight and landing.

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Maximum landing weight is a fairly self-explanatory weight limitation. It is the heaviest an airplane can be to make a landing safely. Like other weight limitations, max landing weight can be driven by a number of different factors. For example, it might be set by the shock absorption characteristics of a landing gear on touch down. It might be set by requirements for a particular landing distance at max landing weight, or it might even be set by flight characteristics that reference maximum landing weight in setting airspeeds during testing, like turning accelerated stalls. If the maximum landing weight is far enough below the maximum take-off weight, it might even drive requirements for fuel dumping equipment, so that the pilots can make the airplane light enough to make the landing safely in the event of an emergency requiring a landing after take-off. For most operators, the thing to remember about the maximum landing weight is simply to make sure that the fuel burn for a given flight is enough to make the airplane light enough to make the landing safely at the destination. It can take a surprisingly long time to burn fuel flying circles.