Steve VarsanoFounder at The Jet Business

What is maximum gross take-off weight and how does it affect aircrafts?

Name: What is maximum gross take-off weight and how does it affect aircrafts?
Uploaded: 2025-02-16T13:16:40+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Steve Varsano
Description: Steve Varsino explains maximum gross takeoff weight, the heaviest an aircraft can be when its engines still generate enough thrust to lift it. MGW…

16 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Steve Varsino explains maximum gross takeoff weight, the heaviest an aircraft can be when its engines still generate enough thrust to lift it. MGW combines airframe weight, fuel, passengers, and baggage, and staying under this limit determines whether a plane can actually fly.

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Is the amount of weight critical on a corporate jet? And the answer, of course, is yes. You know that by flying on commercial airlines, you're only allowed to carry so much baggage, and each bag has to be a certain number of pounds or kilos. An aircraft has a maximum gross takeoff weight, and that weight is the maximum those engines and the thrust of those engines can lift off the ground. So you have to calculate the weight of the airplane, the weight of the fuel, the weight of the passengers, weight of the baggage. All that kind of stuff gathers together to the max takeoff weight. Really the number that the whole physics of an airplane operates around.