Beside fuel, what else makes the max ramp weight be greater than max take-off weight?

Question

Beside fuel, what else makes the max ramp weight be greater than max take-off weight?

Answer 1

You scarring your passenger, and they jump out before you take off..

Answer 2

Fuel is the only legal safe factor,  You have to be able to burn the fuel off to the mtow before you can take off.

Answer 3

FUEL

Unless you start throwing your luggage out the window hahahaha

Answer 4

cargo

Answer 5

--Fuel burned by the APU.  

--Fuel burned by by starting, idling, taxiing.  

--Fuel burned before takeoff during the takeoff roll.

Answer 6

Only thing that can possibly lower your weight while your on the ramp is the weight of the fuel burned to precool the airplane, consumed while taxiing out etc,  period.

Answer 7

only fuel

Answer 8

It's just the fuel burned prior to takeoff.

Answer 9

fuel burned by the APU, fuel burned when starting, taxiing, run up

so ya FUEL.

Answer 10

Only Fuel.

Answer 11

The max ramp weight is the most an aircraft can weight. It is a structural weight limit.

The max take-off weight is limited by operational considerations  such as temperature, runway used, wind, or fuel burn to the destination. There is a structural limit for max take-off gross weight that is set by the manufacturer that is a never-exceed weight, and it is usually higher than the operational max. It will never be lower than the operational max.

If you had a situation where the aircraft was able to use the absolute maximum take-off weight (structural) and was going to burn off a large amount of fuel as taxi fuel, then you might get the gross weight to the max ramp weight.

The only difference between these two weights can be fuel. Period.

Regards,

Dan

Answer 12

Fuel would be the only variable.

Answer 13

What do you guys mean? Every pound is a pound whether its fuel, bodies or cargo. Even the basic weight is all part of it. 500 pounds is added to the MGTW to account for fuel to be burned during taxi. But you could have gobs of fuel and a teensy bit of people or gobs of people and a teensy bit of fuel, either way you'll burn the same amount of fuel on taxi out.

Answer 14

The only way a plane can lose weight is by burning fuel taxiing to the runway.

I suppose unruly, smelly, or violent passengers could be disembarked before takeoff, but you can't always count on it.