Amicia

oh, ok. thank you.

Thx! got it. but what about the MLW problem in a narrow body, Sometimes the MLW is calculated right up to the envelope in the plan (A320's 142.2x1000 LBS for instance), so I can only follow the planned altitude. ofc not regard ATC.

So I won't step climb if it's not scheduled in the F-PLAN in a narrow body generally, since it's very easy to exceed the MLW in some heavy load flight scenario, then I'll have to descend sooner to burn the fuel I saved, so that doesn't make any sense in most of the time. But when comes to wide body, it's something completely different, 'cause I won't use all the capability of the plane in most of my wide body flight, so even if I step climbed to save some fuel , it won't exceed the MLW, but this caused bias against the F-PLAN, so I don't know if it's right to do so. Example in the Pic.