Somewhat related: My father was a Navy pilot during the Cold War. He told me fuel budgets were based on the last period’s consumption. If their actual use was

Somewhat related: My father was a Navy pilot during the Cold War. He told me fuel budgets were based on the last period’s consumption. If their actual use was below what was considered their predicted amount, they would put planes on a schedule where they would take off fully loaded, fly to 30k (or whatever made sense) and dump all of their fuel into the atmosphere. They would then land, empty, and repeat the process. That was a shitload of avgas dropped into the atmosphere but hey, military bureaucracy...